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Shunryu Suzuki Quotes

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Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) The beginner’s mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after you attain it, it is nothing special  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Each of you is perfect the way you are... and you can use a little improvement  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes) When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time  (Shunryu Suzuki Quotes)
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