Shunryu Suzuki Quotes - Page 8

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• When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Karma, Procrastination, Waiting

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• 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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  Practice, People, Mind

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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• When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.

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  Mean, Practice, Limits

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.

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  Thinking, Practice, Involved

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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• Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

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  Practice, Everyday, Activity

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

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• To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.

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  Buddhism, Feelings, Bed

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.63, Shambhala Publications

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• We die, and we do not die.

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  Dies

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

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• You can't make a date with enlightenment.

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  Enlightenment

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• When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Understanding, Again And Again

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• If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after you attain it, it is nothing special.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Simple, Practice, Special

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

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• It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now.

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  Enlightenment, Realizing, Truth Is

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.104, Shambhala Publications

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• The way that helps will not be the same; it changes according to the situation.

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  Way, Helping, Situation

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• When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity.

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  Mind, Quality, States

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.93, Shambhala Publications

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• If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you have in your practice. That is naturalness.

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  Practice, Ideas, Want

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.99, Shambhala Publications

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• The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is.

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  Practice, Able, Accepting

  Shunryu Suzuki (1999). “Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai”, p.65, Univ of California Press

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• Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.

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  Mma, Perfect, Use

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• If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.

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  Limits, Sticks, Capacity

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• Without ignoring the objective side of the truth, it has to be subjective as well, Buddha's whole teaching just for you, something you can taste. Not something to believe in but to discover, to experience.

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  Believe, Teaching, Taste

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• The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

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  Sheep, Giving, Meditation

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• There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.

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  Deep Understanding, Understanding, Needs

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

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  Sheep, Giving, Cows

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.

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  Teaching, Religion, Teaching Religion

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.119, Shambhala Publications

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• If you want to read a letter from the Buddha's world, it is necessary to understand Buddha's world.

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  World, Letters, Want

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• When something dies is the greatest teaching.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Teaching, Dies

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• Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way.

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  Way, West, Sun

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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