Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points. — D.T. Suzuki Doe Copy Share Image
Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the… — D.T. Suzuki Air Copy Share Image
When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air. — D.T. Suzuki Air Copy Share Image
Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND — D.T. Suzuki Identity Copy Share Image
Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry. — D.T. Suzuki Expression Copy Share Image
Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies, — D.T. Suzuki Buddhism Copy Share Image
To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon. — D.T. Suzuki Fingers Copy Share Image
We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life. — D.T. Suzuki Funny Copy Share Image
When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question… — D.T. Suzuki Anxious Copy Share Image
The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes… — D.T. Suzuki Belief Copy Share Image
A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a… — D.T. Suzuki Beholder Copy Share Image
Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying… — D.T. Suzuki Bounds Copy Share Image
The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it,… — D.T. Suzuki Cutting Copy Share Image
Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and… — D.T. Suzuki Concepts Copy Share Image
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate… — D.T. Suzuki Communicate Copy Share Image
The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight… — D.T. Suzuki Crush Copy Share Image
Though perhaps less universally known than such figures as Einstein or Gandhi (who became symbols of our time) Daisetz Suzuki was no… — D.T. Suzuki Effects Copy Share Image
Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism... We cannot be sufficiently grateful to… — D.T. Suzuki Buddhism Copy Share Image
Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets… — D.T. Suzuki Acquire Copy Share Image
Copying is slavery. The letter must never be followed, only the spirit is to be grasped. Higher affirmations live in the spirit.… — D.T. Suzuki Abundance Copy Share Image
Zen abhors repetition or imitation of any kind, for it kills. For the same reason Zen never explains, but only affirms. Life… — D.T. Suzuki Apologizing Copy Share Image
Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace… — D.T. Suzuki Eden Copy Share Image
Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from… — D.T. Suzuki Art Copy Share Image
The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into… — D.T. Suzuki Art Copy Share Image
“Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing… — D.T. Suzuki Environment Copy Share Image
Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are… — D.T. Suzuki Bits Copy Share Image
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself. — D.T. Suzuki Approach Copy Share Image
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking. — D.T. Suzuki Calculating Copy Share Image
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage. — D.T. Suzuki Borrowed Copy Share Image
Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience. — D.T. Suzuki Experience Copy Share Image
The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. — D.T. Suzuki Art Copy Share Image
The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral. — D.T. Suzuki Materials Copy Share Image
