Shunryu Suzuki Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Practice, Mind, Purpose

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

• 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

• The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Being Yourself, Practice, Purpose

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