"No teaching could be more direct than just…" — Shunryu Suzuki

"No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down."

— Shunryu Suzuki

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131 Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki

Shunryu Suzuki has 131 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are…
If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I…
Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel…
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.
The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thursty.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there…
When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain…
As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is…
When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right…
If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe…

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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't… — Adele
I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted… — Adele
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices… — Mary McLeod Bethune
Every actor wants to direct. — Theodore Bikel
Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually… — Lewis Black
In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of… — James Blunt
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go… — Elayne Boosler

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