People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind. There is no need to have a deep understanding of… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to… — 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
If your mind is empty, it is ready for anything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind… — 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
In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
When you sit in the full lotus position, your left foot is on your right thigh and your right foot is on… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
In order not to leave any traces, when you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
You should not have any remains after you do something. But this does not mean to forget all about it. In order… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking;… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind… — 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
