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Thinking 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…
- 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…
- All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is…
- 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.
- If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body…
- It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This…
- 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…
- While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything…
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