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From Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki
- Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not…
- It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent…
- So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself,…
- The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional…
- Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going on in that…
- When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your mind, let it…
- If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.
- Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is…
- Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the…
- Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human…
- Time goes from present to past.
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