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Way 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…
- The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.
- Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.
- 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…
- When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.
- The way that helps will not be the same; it changes according to the situation.
- You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget…
- A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.
- When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.
- Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there…
- Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our…
- To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.
- The goal of our life’s effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step…
- True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.
- Each of us must make our own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.
- The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it…
- 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…
- 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…
- Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.
- Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage…
- Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.
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