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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
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
— D.T. Suzuki
August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.
— Ichiro Suzuki
Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.
— David Suzuki
Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.
— David 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
Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
— David 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
But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals.
— David 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
The heart that feels music will feel people
— Shinichi Suzuki
It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.
— David 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
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— Patricia MacLachlan
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
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
It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.
— 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
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 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
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
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
Practise only as many times as you have breakfast.
— Shinichi Suzuki
I cannot live without children.
— Shinichi Suzuki
deepest spiritual experience.
— D.T. 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
Eternity is the Absolute present.
— D.T. Suzuki
Children learn to smile from their parents.
— Shinichi Suzuki
You will always exist in the universe in one form or another.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
— David Suzuki
Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.
— Shunryu Suzuki
I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
— D.T. Suzuki
Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.
— Shinichi Suzuki
To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Patience is the absence of expectation.
— Shinichi Suzuki
The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.
— Shinichi Suzuki
In the mind of the beginner, all things are possible, But in the mind of the expert, only a few. Zen Master Suzuki-Roshi
— Barbara L. Jordan
I known I'm only a child, yet I know we're all in the this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal
— Severn Cullis-Suzuki
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few
— 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
People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom
— Koji Suzuki
The world doesn't hate you as much as you think it does.
— Koji Suzuki
Environmentalism has failed.
— David 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
Music is the language of the heart without words.
— Shinichi Suzuki
Geothermal can be a huge source of energy very quickly.
— David Suzuki
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
— D.T. Suzuki
I'd say true friendship is worth fighting for.
— L.T. Suzuki
Perhaps it is music that will save the world.
— Shinichi Suzuki
When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.
— D.T. Suzuki
You should rather be grateful for the weeds, because eventually they will enrich your practice.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Our way to practice is one step at a time, on breath at a time.
— Shunryu Suzuki
In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.
— 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
An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.
— Shinichi 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
Hell is not punishment, it's training.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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
Life is like stepping into a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. - SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI A
— Pema Chodron
Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place.
— David Suzuki
When we realize the everlasting truth of "everything changes" and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Live by looking for things to do for other people.
— Shinichi Suzuki
To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.
— Shinichi Suzuki
Take care of things, and they will take care of you.
— Shunryu Suzuki