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Shunryu Suzuki Quotes

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There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) We have to study with our warm heart, not just with our brain  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) When you sit, everything sits with you  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) When something dies is the greatest teaching  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Time goes from present to past  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Take care of things, and they will take care of you  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) You will always exist in the universe in one form or another  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) We must exist right here, right now!  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) A garden is never finished  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don’t feel that way  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) 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  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different; in essense they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) So the secret is just to say ‘Yes!’ and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself, without sticking to an old self  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don’t try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional activity; we just sit. Whatever happens to us, we are not bothered. We just sit. It is like something happening in the great sky. Whatever kind of bird flies through it, the sky doesn’t care. That is the mind transmitted from Buddha to us  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
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