Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem… — D.T. Suzuki Buddhism 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
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
Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting… — D.T. Suzuki Buddhism Copy Share Image
I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside… — D.T. Suzuki Balls Copy Share Image
Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away,… — D.T. Suzuki Believe 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
We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life. — D.T. Suzuki Funny Copy Share Image
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking. — D.T. Suzuki Calculating Copy Share Image
If I am asked If I am asked, then, what Zen teaches, I would answer, Zen teaches nothing. Whatever teachings there are… — D.T. Suzuki Answers 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
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
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 approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself. — D.T. Suzuki Approach 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
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
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
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
Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original… — D.T. Suzuki Circumstances 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 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
