"If your mind is empty, it is always……" — Shunryu Suzuki
"If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything."
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131 Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki
Shunryu Suzuki has 131 quotes on this site.
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
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When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are…
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If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I…
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Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel…
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The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.
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Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.
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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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As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is…
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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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We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
— Winston Churchill
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Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious…
— Hendrik Willem van Loon
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Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be…
— Charles Spurgeon
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To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament…
— Teresa of Avila
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The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
— John Lyly
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I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising…
— Richard Goldschmidt
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That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.
— Mark Twain
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Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious…
— Charles E. Burchfield
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In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.
— Sun Tzu
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Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never…
— William Shakespeare
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