365 Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki

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    In other restless positions you have no power to accept your difficulties, but in the zazen posture which you have acquired by long, hard practice, your mind and body have great power to accept things as they are, whether they are agreeable or disagreeable.

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    But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice.

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    In zazen practice we say your mind should be concentrated on your breathing, but the way to keep your mind on your breathing is to forget all about yourself and just to sit and feel your breathing.

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    When we see a part of the moon covered by a cloud, or a tree, or a weed, we feel how round the moon is. But when we see the clear moon without anything covering it, we do not feel that roundness the same way we do when we see it through something else.

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    If someone is watching you, you can escape from him, but if no one is watching, you cannot escape from yourself.

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