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Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “So even though you have some difficulty in your practice, even though you have some waves while you are sitting, those waves themselves will help you.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “There is no gap between the ignorant and the wise. A foolish person is a wise person; a wise person is a foolish person.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Bowing helps to eliminate our self-centered ideas. This is not so easy. It is difficult to get rid of these ideas, and bowing is a very valuable practice. The result is not the point; it is the effort to improve ourselves that is valuable. There is no end to this practice.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “There is no certain way that exists permanently... Moment after moment we have to find our own way.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “We die, and we do not die.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Because your attainment is always ahead, you will always be sacrificing yourself now for some ideal in the future.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Those who are attached only to the result of their effort will not have any chance to appreciate it, because the result will never come.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Building character is like making bread – you have to mix it little by little, step by step, and moderate temperature is needed. You know yourself quite well, and you know how much temperature you need. You know exactly what you need. But if you get too excited, you will forget how much temperature is good for you, and you will lose your own way. This is very dangerous.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “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 Quote: “If someone is watching you, you can escape from him, but if no one is watching, you cannot escape from yourself.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “So if you do something, you should be observant, and careful, and alert.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “To have a headache will be all right, because you are healthy enough to have a headache.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Just as you unreel the thread from a spool, I want the past to become present.” When she said this, actually she made past time present. In her mind the past became alive and was the present.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Whether you have a problem in your life or not depends upon your own attitude, your own understanding.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Instead of only criticizing your culture, you should devote your mind and body to practicing this simple way. Then society and culture will grow out of you.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “But Buddha was not interested in the elements comprising human beings, nor in metaphysical theories of existence. He was more concerned about how he himself existed in this moment.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “We should not attach to some fancy ideas or to some beautiful things. We should not seek for something good. The truth is always near at hand, within your reach.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “But the purpose of studying Buddhism is to study ourselves and to forget ourselves. When we forget ourselves, we actually are the true activity of the big existence, or reality itself.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “In our practice we have no particular purpose or goal, nor any special object of worship.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Another mistake will be to practice for the sake of the joy you find in it. Actually, when your practice is involved in a feeling of joy, it is not in very good shape either. Of course this is not poor practice, but compared to the true practice it is not so good.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Do not be too interested in Zen.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “More important than any stage which you will attain is your sincerity, your right effort.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “If you are not concerned about what you do, you will not say so. When you sit, you will sit. When you eat, you will eat. That is all. If you say, “It doesn’t matter,” it means that you are making some excuse to do something in your own way with your small mind.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “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 Quote: “The important thing in our understanding is to have a smooth, free-thinking way of observation. We have to think and to observe things without stagnation. We should accept things as they are without difficulty. Ou mind should be soft and open enough to understand things as they are. When our thinking is soft, it is called imperturbable thinking. This kind of thinking is always stable. It is called mindfulness.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another. Zen masters are very straightforward.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “So even though you have some difficulty in your practice, even though you have some waves while you are sitting, those waves themselves will help you. So you should not be bothered by your mind. You should rather be grateful for the weeds, because eventually they will enrich your practice.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “We sit to express our true nature.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “There is no easy way to be a teacher or a disciple, although it must be the greatest joy in this life.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Not to be attached to something is to be aware of its absolute value.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “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 Quote: “Pleasure is not different from difficulty. Good is not different from bad. Bad is good; good is bad. They are two sides of one coin. So enlightenment should be in practice. That is the right understanding of practice, and the right understanding of our life. So to find pleasure in suffering is the only way to accept the truth of transiency.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Zen is nothing to get excited about.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “A Zen master once said, “To go eastward one mile is to go westward one mile.” This is vital freedom. We should acquire this kind of perfect freedom.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “After the wand stops I see a flower falling. Because of the singing bird I find the mountain calmness.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “When you do something, just to do it should be your purpose.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Usually when you listen to some statement, you hear it as a kind of echo of yourself. You are actually listening to your own opinion. If it agrees with your opinion you may accept it, but if it does not, you will reject it or you may not even really hear it.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “As long as you have rules, you have a chance for freedom. To try to obtain freedom without being aware of the rules means nothing.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Even though it is midnight, dawn is here; even though dawn comes, it is nighttime.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Which is more important: to attain enlightenment, or to attain enlightenment before you attain enlightenment; to make a million dollars, or to enjoy your life in your effort, little by little, even though it is impossible to make that million; to be successful, or to find some meaning in your effort to be successful? If you do not know the answer, you will not even be able to practice zazen; if you do know, you will have found the true treasure of life.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “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. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “In the thinking realm there is a difference between oneness and variety; but in actual experience, variety and unity are the same.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “I think that is what you do. Instead of working with the problems you have, you cause yourself more problems by seeking for something else. But there is no need to seek for anything. You have plenty of problems, just enough.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Those who find great difficulties in practicing Zen will find more meaning in it.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “Usually when you practice zazen, you become very idealistic, and you set up an ideal or goal which you strive to attain and fulfill. But as I have often said, this is absurd. When you are idealistic, you have some gaining idea within yourself; by the time you attain your ideal or goal, your gaining idea will create another ideal.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends, even though you appreciate them with new feeling.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “For Zen students the most important thing is not to be dualistic. Our “original mind” includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. You should not lose your self-sufficient state of mind. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “When we first hear that everything is a tentative existence, most of us are disappointed; but this disappointment comes from a wrong view of man and nature. It is because our way of observing things is deeply rooted in our self-centered ideas that we are disappointed when we find everything has only a tentative existence. But when we actually realize this truth, we will have no suffering.”
Shunryu Suzuki Quote: “You must force yourself to be patient, but in constancy there is no particular effort involved – there is only the unchanging ability to accept things as they are. For people who have no idea of emptiness, this ability may appear to be patience, but patience can actually be non-acceptance.”
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