The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thursty. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Someone was sitting in front of a sunflower, watching the sunflower, a cup of sun, and so I tried it too. It… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there is no… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away? — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind, there are few.” — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground,… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
