"People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but……" — Shunryu Suzuki
"People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to sit in the cross- legged position, or to attain enlightenment. It is difficult because it is hard to keep our mind pure and our practice pure in its fundamental sense."
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Shunryu Suzuki
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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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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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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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