--- title: "18 Trying Quotes By Shunryu Suzuki" description: "18 Trying quotes by Shunryu Suzuki. Plus more from Shunryu Suzuki and more Trying sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12c/shunryu-suzuki-1280_deeper_we-try-and-we-try-and-we-fail-and-then-w_3178418.png" --- > [We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/we-try-and-we-try-and-we-fail-and-then-we-go-deeper/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12c/shunryu-suzuki-1280_deeper_we-try-and-we-try-and-we-fail-and-then-w_3178418.png) > [If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/if-you-try-to-observe-the-precepts-that-is-not-true-observation-of/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba9/shunryu-suzuki-1280_ifs_if-you-try-to-observe-the-precepts-that_313399.jpg) > [After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/after-you-have-practiced-for-a-while-you-will-realize-that-it-is-not/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/009/shunryu-suzuki-1280_extraordinary_after-you-have-practiced-for-a-while-you_274551.png) > [Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/concentration-comes-not-from-trying-hard-to-focus-on-something-but/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/175/shunryu-suzuki-1280_concentration_concentration-comes-not-from-trying-hard_1958304.png) > [“The trying to do something is in itself enlightenment. When we are in difficulty or distress, there we have enlightenment.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/the-trying-to-do-something-is-in-itself-enlightenment-when-we-are-in/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62b/shunryu-suzuki-1280_adversity_the-trying-to-do-something-is-in-itself_2065194.png) > [When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/when-you-are-just-you-without-thinking-or-trying-to-say-something/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cad/shunryu-suzuki-1280_feels_when-you-are-just-you-without-thinking-o_380547.png) > [When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/when-you-try-to-understand-everything-you-will-not-understand/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/722/shunryu-suzuki-1280_awareness_when-you-try-to-understand-everything-yo_809026.png) > [Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/let-your-ears-hear-without-trying-to-hear-let-the-mind-think-without/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/203/shunryu-suzuki-1280_ears_let-your-ears-hear-without-trying-to-hea_1941773.png) > [So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/so-when-you-try-hard-to-make-your-own-way-you-will-help-others-before/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa4/shunryu-suzuki-1280_hard_so-when-you-try-hard-to-make-your-own-wa_1465362.png) > [Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/our-practice-should-be-based-on-the-ideal-of-selflessness/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84e/shunryu-suzuki-1280_difficult_our-practice-should-be-based-on-the-idea_1001601.png) > [Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/even-though-you-try-very-hard-the-progress-you-make-is-always-little/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/466/shunryu-suzuki-1280_difficult_even-though-you-try-very-hard-the-progre_2846980.jpg) > [There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love...Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/there-is-no-formula-for-generating-the-authentic-warmth-of-love/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74f/shunryu-suzuki-1280_awareness_there-is-no-formula-for-generating-the-a_1756025.png) > [When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/when-we-have-our-body-and-mind-in-order-everything-else-will-exist-in-2/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dd/shunryu-suzuki-1280_body_when-we-have-our-body-and-mind-in-order_1651933.png) > [The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/the-zen-way-of-calligraphy-is-to-write-in-the-most-straightforward/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/367/shunryu-suzuki-1280_attention_the-zen-way-of-calligraphy-is-to-write-i_1115813.png) > [The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/the-mind-we-have-when-we-practice-zazen-is-the-great-mind-we-don-t/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/031/shunryu-suzuki-1280_activity_the-mind-we-have-when-we-practice-zazen_2303970.png) > [Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/even-though-you-try-to-put-people-under-control-it-is-impossible-you/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/497/shunryu-suzuki-1280_cows_even-though-you-try-to-put-people-under_1037533.png) > [When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/when-you-are-practicing-zazen-do-not-try-to-stop-your-thinking-let-it/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/850/shunryu-suzuki-1280_bothered_when-you-are-practicing-zazen-do-not-try_1031436.png) > [If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/if-you-understand-real-practice-then-archery-or-other-activities-can/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/042/shunryu-suzuki-1280_ability_if-you-understand-real-practice-then-arc_1114430.jpg) ## Other authors on Trying ## More by Shunryu Suzuki > [The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/the-point-we-emphasize-is-strong-confidence-in-our-original-nature/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/if-you-continue-this-simple-practice-every-day-you-will-obtain-some/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) > [You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/you-want-to-eliminate-your-evil-desires-in-order-to-reveal-your/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) > [Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/ego-is-a-social-institution-with-no-physical-reality-the-ego-is/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) > [“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind, there are few.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/in-the-beginner-s-mind-there-are-many-possibilities-in-the-experts/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/the-seed-has-no-idea-of-being-some-particular-plant-but-it-has-its/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/whereever-you-are-you-are-one-with-the-clouds-and-one-with-the-sun/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/when-we-become-truly-ourselves-we-just-become-a-swinging-door-and-we/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/zen-is-not-some-fancy-special-art-of-living-our-teaching-is-just-to/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/so-the-secret-is-just-to-say-yes-and-jump-off-from-here-then-there-is/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/our-tendency-is-to-be-interested-in-something-that-is-growing-in-the/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) > [The world is its own magic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/the-world-is-its-own-magic/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/people-say-that-practicing-zen-is-difficult-but-there-is-a/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) > [Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/each-one-of-us-must-make-his-own-true-way-and-when-we-do-that-way/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) > [The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/the-purpose-of-our-practice-is-just-to-be-yourself/) [Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trying/shunryu-suzuki/#itemlist", "name": "18 Trying Quotes By Shunryu Suzuki", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Shunryu Suzuki" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/we-try-and-we-try-and-we-fail-and-then-we-go-deeper/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12c/shunryu-suzuki-1280_deeper_we-try-and-we-try-and-we-fail-and-then-w_3178418.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12c/shunryu-suzuki-1280_deeper_we-try-and-we-try-and-we-fail-and-then-w_3178418.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12c/shunryu-suzuki-1280_deeper_we-try-and-we-try-and-we-fail-and-then-w_3178418.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.” — Shunryu Suzuki", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. 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