Enjoy the best Shunryu Suzuki Quotes. Quotations by Shunryu Suzuki (Japanese Zen Monk)
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.
Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace.
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
Daily life becomes our Zen training.
As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.
Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.
The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.