Shunryu Suzuki Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different, in essence they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Buddhist, Understanding, Sorrow

  "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice".

• It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Pain, Understanding, Causes

• So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Jewels, Practice, Understanding

  Lecture in Los Altos, California, September 01, 1967.

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

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Deep Understanding, Understanding, Needs

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

• 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

• So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind. There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen. Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind. You should not say, "I know what Zen is," or "I have attained enlightenment." This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. Be very very careful about this point. If you start to practice zazen, you will begin to appreciate your beginner's mind. It is the secret of Zen practice.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Art, Real, Practice

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