Shunryu Suzuki Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Effort, Leaving, Should

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

• Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Art, Teaching, Reality

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

• 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.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  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

• Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Perfection, Effort, Stills

• The goal of our life’s effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Goal, Effort, Way

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.51, Shambhala Publications

• When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Effort, Earth, Dimensions

• If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Wall, Pride, Practice

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.126, Shambhala Publications

• If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Pride, Practice, Effort

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.44, Shambhala Publications

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