5 Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki about emptiness

  • Author Shunryu Suzuki
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    To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather than trying to be alive or active, if we can be calm and die or fade away into emptiness, then naturally we will be all right.

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  • Author Shunryu Suzuki
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    Concentration is not to try hard to watch something... Concentration means freedom... 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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  • Author Shunryu Suzuki
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    But as long as you have some fixed idea or are caught by some habitual way of doing things, you cannot appreciate things in their true sense.

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