"If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice,……" — 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 something which has no form or no color, which is ready to take form or color. This enlightenment is the immutable truth. It is on this orginal truth that our activity, our thinking, and our practice should be based."
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131 Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
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The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thursty.
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there…
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When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain…
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When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right…
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If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe…
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