Shunryu Suzuki Quotes - Page 5

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• As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

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  Reality, Long, Shadow

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• Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little. If your mind has ideas of progress, you may say, 'Oh, this pace is terrible!' But actually it is not. When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself.

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  Ideas, Fog, Mind

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.

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  Mind, Figures, Bigs

  Shunryū Suzuki, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker (2006). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

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• So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

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  Helping Others, Trying, Way

  Shunryu Suzuki (2018). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice”, p.66, House of Majied Publications via PublishDrive

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• To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.

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  Mean, Mind, Doe

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

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  Arrogance, Bows, Ifs

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• Zen is everywhere.... But for you, Zen is right here.

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• In order not to leave any traces, when you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do. You should not have any remains after you do something. But this does not mean to forget all about it.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mean, Fire, Order

  "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind".

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• The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.

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  Doubt, Mind, Experts

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• We should not be just a fan of dragons; we should always be the dragon himself. Then we will not be afraid of any dragon.

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  Dragons, Fans, Should

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• True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

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  Communication, May, Way

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so.... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice.

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  Practice, Two, Secret

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• Real Freedom is to not feel limited when wearing this Zen robe, this troublesome formal robe. Similarly, in our busy life we should wear this civilization without being bothered by it, without ignoring it, without being caught by it.

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  Real, Civilization, Busy

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Not Always So", p. 95, 2002.

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• The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

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  Life Is, Difficulty, Acknowledge

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• The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature.

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  Strong, Originals

  Shunryu Suzuki (2018). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice”, p.28, House of Majied Publications via PublishDrive

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• If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

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  Thinking, Two, Mind

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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• You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

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  Order, Evil, Desire

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• You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

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  Weed, Grateful, Practice

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• When we inhale, the air comes into the inner world. When we exhale, the air goes out to the outer world. The inner world is limitless, and the outer world is also limitless. We say "inner world" or "outer world" but actually, There is just one whole world.

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  Clouds, Air, Wind

  Shunryu Suzuki (2018). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice”, p.13, House of Majied Publications via PublishDrive

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• When you try to attain something, your mind starts to wander about somewhere else. When you do not try to attain anything, you have your own body and mind right here.
  In Buddhism it is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves.

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  Buddhism, Views, Somewhere Else

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• If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.

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  Trying, Observation, Ifs

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• Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.

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  Expression, Practice, Growth

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.32, Shambhala Publications

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• Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

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  Preparing Food, About Yourself, Preparing

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• An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.

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  Truth, Enlightenment, Doe

  Shunryu Suzuki, Mel Weitsman, Michael Wenger (1999). “Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• We do not slight the idea of enlightenment, but the most important thing is this moment, not some day in the future. We have to make our effort in this moment. This is the most important thing for our practice.

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  Practice, Ideas, Effort

  Shunryu Suzuki (2018). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice”, p.58, House of Majied Publications via PublishDrive

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