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In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don’t serve them tea. (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life. (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
There is no certain way that exists permanentlyMoment after moment we have to find our own way (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, Why is there so much suffering?Suzuki Roshi replied, No reason. (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
If your mind is empty, it is ready for anything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few. (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few. (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing. (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities. (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
You should rather be grateful for the weeds, because eventually they will enrich your practice (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
The world is it's own magic (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Instead of criticizing, find out how to help (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
The way that helps will not be the same; it changes according to the situation (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
If it is raining out, do not walk fast, because it is raining everywhere (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)