7 Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki about ideas

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    When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

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    And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new.

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    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.

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    To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

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    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.

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    Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything.

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