Shunryu Suzuki Quotes About Study

Quotes about: Study

• 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

• 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.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Practice, Ideas, Want

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

• We have to study with our warm heart, not just with our brain.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Heart, Brain, Study

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