Education Quote by D.T. Suzuki Download Open image “We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.” — D.T. Suzuki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Teach Way
Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
If I am asked If I am asked, then, what Zen teaches, I would answer, Zen teaches nothing. Whatever teachings there are in Zen,… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Zen teaches that our approach to today determines our whole approach to life. — Philip Toshio Sudo Copy Share Image
Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen provides a structure that supports our exploring the practice and the teachings for ourselves. — Jean Smith Copy Share Image
Zen is the very principle of existence. Whether there is anyone who teaches it or not, whether there is anyone who learns it or… — OSHO Copy Share Image
Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Zen training is a means of enabling us to live our ordinary lives supremely well.” — Katsuki Sekida Copy Share Image
The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Copying is slavery. The letter must never be followed, only the spirit is to be grasped. Higher affirmations live in the spirit. And where… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
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… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
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. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Zen abhors repetition or imitation of any kind, for it kills. For the same reason Zen never explains, but only affirms. Life is fact… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image