Secret Quote by Shunryu Suzuki Download Open image “The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.” — Shunryu Suzuki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Secret Two Two Words
Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death. — Takeda Shingen Copy Share Image
Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most writers agree on the fact that Zen is not to be understood but to be lived; and far from being incompatible with the… — Robert Linssen Copy Share Image
Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities! — Mika Copy Share Image
Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away? — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind, there are few.” — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground,… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon… — Shunryu 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 our effort, moment after moment, is our way. In an exact sense, the only thing we actually can study in our life is that on which we are working in each moment. We cannot even study… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share
So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency rather than… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share
It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
When I talked to him earlier, he said he had to work tonight,” Peter explained, “but that we should go ahead and draw for him.” “Draw?” I asked uneasily. “Oh Lord. Tell me it’s not Pictionary night too.” Peter sighed wearily. “Draw for secret Santas. Do you even read the e-mails I send?” “Secret Santas? Seems like we just did… — Richelle Mead Copy Share
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than… — Peter Hilton Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image