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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
— D.T. Suzuki
Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.
— D.T. Suzuki
However insistently the blind may deny the existence of the sun, they cannot annihilate it.
— D.T. Suzuki
The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.
— D.T. Suzuki
Zen professesitself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all
religions and philosophies, — D.T. Suzuki
We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life.
— D.T. Suzuki
That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.
— D.T. Suzuki
To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon ...
— D.T. Suzuki
Zen has nothing to do with letters, words, or sutras.
— D.T. Suzuki
Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.
— D.T. Suzuki
The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.
— D.T. Suzuki
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
— D.T. Suzuki
Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
— D.T. Suzuki
Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.
— D.T. Suzuki
Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND
— D.T. Suzuki
Zen has no business with ideas.
— D.T. Suzuki
To live - is that not enough?
— D.T. Suzuki
The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality ... is the highest act of wisdom
— D.T. Suzuki
I'd say true friendship is worth fighting for.
— L.T. Suzuki
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
— D.T. Suzuki
deepest spiritual experience.
— D.T. Suzuki
Eternity is the Absolute present.
— D.T. Suzuki
I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
— D.T. Suzuki
The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
— D.T. Suzuki
One has not understood until one has forgotten it.
— D.T. Suzuki
You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
— D.T. Suzuki
Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.
— D.T. Suzuki
Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
— D.T. Suzuki
Unless we die to ourselves, we can never be alive again.
— D.T. Suzuki
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
— D.T. Suzuki
Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.
— D.T. Suzuki
