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Shunryu Suzuki Quotes
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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)
Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Even though you have pain in your legs, you can do it. Even though your practice is not good enough, you can do it (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
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 Quotes)
To cook is not just to prepare food for someone or to cook for yourself; it is to express your sincerity. So when you cook you should express yourself in your activity in the kitchen. You should allow yourself plenty of time (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No more medicine (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground, with its surroundings... and there is no trouble. This is what we mean by naturalness (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Each of us must make our own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Don’t move. Just die over and over. Don’t anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don’t move (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves; we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
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 Quotes)
You should not have any remains after you do something. But this does not mean to forget all about it. In order not to leave any traces, when you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going on in that world, and that is, you might say, enlightenment. When you see plum blossoms or hear the sound of a small stone hitting bamboo, that is a letter from the world of emptiness (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
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 (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)