Shunryu Suzuki Quotes About Buddhism

Quotes about: Buddhism

• Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Yoga, Buddhism, Mma

• The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Buddhism, Purpose, Study

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

• The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the teaching is not ourselves. It is some explanation of ourselves. To study the teaching is to know yourselves. That is why we do not ever attach to the teaching, or to the teacher. The moment you meet a teacher you should leave the teacher, and you should be independent. You want a teacher so that you can be independent. So you study yourselves. You have the teacher for yourselves, not for the teacher.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Teacher, Teaching, Independent

• 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.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Buddhism, Feelings, Bed

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

• 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.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Buddhism, Views, Somewhere Else

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