365 Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki
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We sit to express our true nature
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Do not be too interested in Zen.
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Zen is nothing to get excited about.
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You see something or hear a sound, and there you have everything just as it is.[...]Whatever you do, it should be an expression of the same deep activity. We should appreciate what we are doing. There is no preparation for something else.
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Everything changes. There is nothing to stick to. That is the Buddha's most important teaching.
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Emotionally we have many problems, but these problems are not actual problems; they are something created; they are problems pointed out by our self-centered ideas or views.
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Each existence depends on something else... there are no separate individual existences. There are just many names for one existence.
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There is no gap between the ignorant and the wise. A foolish person is a wise person; a wise person is a foolish person.
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When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.
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