Picture 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 SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture 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 SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes We die, and we do not die. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground, with its surroundings ... and there is no trouble. This is what we mean by naturalness. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing]. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love...Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self-love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything! —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The world is its own magic. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. —Shunryu SuzukiWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this