Shunryu Suzuki Quotes - Page 2

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• Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

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  Change, Perfect, Worry

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• A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.

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  Love, Life, Weed

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• Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.

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  Spiritual, Practice, Ideas

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• Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.

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  Sheep, People, Giving

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• The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

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  Two, Feet, Important

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• Faith is a state of openness or trust...In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

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  Faith, Letting Go, Attitude

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• Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

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  Life, Stars, Clouds

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• Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.

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  Voice, Listening, Moments

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• When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your mind, let it come in, and let it go out. It will not stay long. When you try to stop your thinking, it means you are bothered by it. Do not be bothered by anything. It appears as if something comes from outside your mind, but actually it is only the waves of your mind, and if you are not bothered by the waves, gradually they will become calmer and calmer.

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  Mean, Thinking, Long

  Shunryū Suzuki, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker (2006). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.

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  Perfect, Empowerment, Rooms

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• 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.

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  Pain, Understanding, Causes

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• 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.

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  Practice, Mind, Purpose

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

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• When you sit, everything sits with you.

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  Meditation

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.95, Shambhala Publications

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• To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

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  Important, Fancy, Adjusting

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• I think you're all enlightened, until you open your mouths.

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  Thinking, Mouths, Enlightened

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• In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves.

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  Problem, Should, Reflecting

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• In the Lotus Sutra, Buddha says to light up one corner - not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are.

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  Light, Lotuses, World

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• It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

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  Wisdom, Fluidity, Contradiction

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• Discipline is creating the situation.

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  Creating, Discipline, Situation

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• When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

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  Time, Ideas, Moments

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• In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

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  Inspirational, Teaching, Imagination

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

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• Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

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  Wisdom, Reality, Ego

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• Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

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  Change, Suffering, Management

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• To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

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  Cake, Ideas, Paper

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• I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color--something which exists before all forms and colors appear... No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.

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  Believe, Self, Color

  Shunryū Suzuki, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker (2006). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.144, Shambhala Publications

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