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Something Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki
- If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing in nothing, believing…
- In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there is no thought, 'I have…
- As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.
- When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being…
- Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to…
- 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…
- 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…
- Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.
- As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.
- If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is…
- When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No…
- If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.
- In the beginner's mind there is no thought, "I have attained something." All self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind. When we have no thought of…
- If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.
- When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
- When something dies is the greatest teaching.
- Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.
- I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and…
- We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.
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