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But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice.
— Shunryu Suzuki
You can't make a date with enlightenment.
— Shunryu Suzuki
The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.
— Shunryu Suzuki
For the beginner, practice without effort is not true practice.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.
— Shunryu Suzuki
The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thursty.
— Shunryu Suzuki
In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.
— Shunryu Suzuki
When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No more medicine.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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
More important than any stage which you will attain is your sincerity, your right effort.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Zen is everywhere ... But for you, Zen is right here.
— Shunryu Suzuki
If you want to read a letter from the Buddha's world, it is necessary to understand Buddha's world.
— Shunryu Suzuki
A master who cannot bow to his disciple cannot bow to Buddha.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Moment after moment, everyone comes out from nothingness. This is the true joy of life.
— Shunryu Suzuki
When you sit, everything sits with you.
— Shunryu Suzuki
If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.
— Shunryu Suzuki
If you receive things just as an echo of yourself, you do not really see them, you do not fully accept them as they are.
— Shunryu Suzuki
We should not be just a fan of dragons; we should always be the dragon himself. Then we will not be afraid of any dragon.
— Shunryu Suzuki
When you bow, you should just bow; when you sit, you should just sit; when you eat, you should just eat.
— Shunryu Suzuki
It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.
— Shunryu Suzuki
In the Lotus Sutra, Buddha says to light up one corner - not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.
— Shunryu Suzuki
No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.
— Shunryu Suzuki
When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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 Suzuki
Do not be too interested in Zen.
— Shunryu Suzuki
To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.
— Shunryu Suzuki
A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits it not open to things as they are.
— Shunryu Suzuki
When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.
— Shunryu Suzuki
When something dies is the greatest teaching.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.
— Shunryu Suzuki
If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.
— Shunryu Suzuki
But the way of practice is just to be concentrated on your breathing with the right posture and with great, pure effort.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Even when you practice zazen alone, without a teacher, I think you will find some way to tell whether your practice is adequate or not.
— Shunryu Suzuki
In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.
— Shunryu Suzuki
We die, and we do not die.
— Shunryu Suzuki
The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is.
— Shunryu Suzuki
We have to study with our warm heart, not just with our brain.
— Shunryu Suzuki
We must exist right here, right now!
— Shunryu Suzuki
enjoy your problems
— Shunryu Suzuki
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
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few
— Shunryu Suzuki
We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.
— Shunryu Suzuki
To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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
It must be obvious ... that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.
— Shunryu Suzuki
A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.
— Shunryu Suzuki
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
— Shunryu Suzuki
It is necessary to remember what we have done, but we should not become attached to what we have done in some special sense.
— Shunryu Suzuki
You should rather be grateful for the weeds, because eventually they will enrich your practice.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Take care of things, and they will take care of you.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Life is like stepping into a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. - SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI A
— Pema Chodron
A Zen master once said, "To go eastward one mile is to go westward one mile." This is vital freedom. We should acquire this kind of perfect freedom.
— Shunryu Suzuki
When we realize the everlasting truth of "everything changes" and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Hell is not punishment, it's training.
— Shunryu Suzuki
As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.
— Shunryu Suzuki
In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Our way to practice is one step at a time, on breath at a time.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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
When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.
— Shunryu Suzuki
People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy.
— Shunryu Suzuki
A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"
Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason. — Shunryu Suzuki
Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason. — Shunryu Suzuki
To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.
— Shunryu Suzuki
To take this posture itself is the purpose of our practice.
— Shunryu Suzuki
You will always exist in the universe in one form or another.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.
— Shunryu Suzuki
To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Whether you have a problem in your life or not depends upon your own attitude, your own understanding.
— Shunryu Suzuki
The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so ... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice.
— Shunryu Suzuki
When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.
— Shunryu Suzuki
There is no certain way that exists permanently ... Moment after moment we have to find our own way.
— Shunryu Suzuki
But as long as you have some fixed idea or are caught by some habitual way of doing things, you cannot appreciate things in their true sense.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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
Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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 Suzuki
There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it.
— Shunryu Suzuki