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Shunryu Suzuki - From the Acceptance category:
When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Activity category:
There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Belief category:
It is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color - something which exists before all forms and colors appear. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Change category:
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Communication category:
Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there is some communication. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Discipline category:
Discipline is creating the situation. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Effort category:
If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Expectation category:
When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Experience category:
When something dies is the greatest teaching. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Expression category:
It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This is not expressing yourself. If you know what to do exactly, and you do it, then you can express yourself fully. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Fire category:
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Growth category:
Each of you is perfect the way you are... and you can use a little improvement. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Importance category:
The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Magic category:
The world is its own magic. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Perfection category:
Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Possibilities category:
If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Practice category:
If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won't help you through and through. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Problems category:
Enjoy your problems. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Progress category:
Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little. If your mind has ideas of progress, you may say, 'Oh, this pace is terrible!' But actually it is not. When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Reality category:
-Letters from Emptiness...
All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Religion category:
No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Religion category:
Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Routine category:
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Thought category:
You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Time category:
Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Truth category:
Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Shunryu Suzuki - From the Understanding category:
When you understand a frog through and through, you attain enlightenment. (Shunryu Suzuki)
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