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[Wikipedia] Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki , was a Japanese essayist, philosopher, religious scholar, and translator. He was an authority on Buddhism, especially Zen and Shin, and was instrumental in spreading interest in these to the West. He was also a prolific translator of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and

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• Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.… All
• Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day. Day
• Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points. Aware
• To Zen, time and eternity are one. Eternity
• Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry. Expression
• Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND Apart
• We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time… Eye
• Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time… Daily
• Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us… Bound
• Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing. Concepts
• One has not understood until one has forgotten it. Forgotten
• We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life. Funny
• The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of… Art
• Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious. Art
• Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities. Conceptually
• Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very… Bowl
• Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. Art
• As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself… Attach

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