Teaching Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki

The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature.

— Shunryu Suzuki

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

You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

— Shunryu Suzuki

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

— Shunryu Suzuki

“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind, there are few.”

— Shunryu Suzuki

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

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

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

“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

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

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

The world is its own magic.

— Shunryu Suzuki

People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to…

— Shunryu Suzuki

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

— Shunryu Suzuki

The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself.

— Shunryu Suzuki