Shunryu Suzuki Quotes - Page 6

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• There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  People, Enlightened, Activity

  "Zen Millionaire: The Investor's Guide to the Other Side". Book by Paul Farrell, 2007.

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• 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

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• You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Weed, Grateful, Practice

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Ideas, Long, Serious

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.100, Shambhala Publications

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• And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Past, Attachment, Ideas

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• The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so.... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Practice, Two, Secret

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• To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mean, Mind, Doe

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Heart, Brain, Study

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• A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Bows, Masters, Disciple

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• For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Weed, Treasure, Students

  Shunryū Suzuki, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker (2006). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.152, Shambhala Publications

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• If you want to enjoy the movie, you should know that it is the combination of film and light and white screen, and that the most important thing is to have a plain, white screen.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  White, Light, Important

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• Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Thinking, People, Joy

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• 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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• Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Use, Want, Conquer

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Respect For Things", p. 81, 2002.

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• Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Fashion, Art, Mean

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• When you try to attain something, your mind starts to wander about somewhere else. When you do not try to attain anything, you have your own body and mind right here.
  In Buddhism it is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Buddhism, Views, Somewhere Else

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• 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

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• We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Sake

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Emptiness, Wondrous

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• The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.

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  Beautiful, Time, Nature

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Teaching, Moments, Should

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.119, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  God, Believe, Self

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

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• Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Attitude, Believe, Way

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.62, Shambhala Publications

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• To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Different, Equal, All Things

  Shunryu Suzuki, Mel Weitsman, Michael Wenger (1999). “Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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• If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Laughing, Would Be, Needs

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