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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

Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance. — D.T. Suzuki

Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years. — 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

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle. — David 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

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts. — David 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

Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape! — David 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

I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel. — Ichiro Suzuki

sounds of Suzuki, — Patricia MacLachlan

Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring. — Shunryu Suzuki

After I read David Suzuki's book, I took salmon from my dinner plate and I buried it in the woods, hoping to assist the growth of a large tree. — Ned Hayes

There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment. — Shunryu Suzuki

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. — David 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

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless. — Shunryu Suzuki

There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment — Shunryu Suzuki

If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself. — Shunryu Suzuki

Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement. — Shunryu Suzuki

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society. — David 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

A baby nursing at a mother's breast ... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature. — David Suzuki

A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise. — Shinichi Suzuki

Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it. — David Suzuki

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. — 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

I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto. — Ichiro Suzuki

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours. — Ichiro Suzuki

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty — Shinichi 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

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1. — David Suzuki

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched. — David Suzuki

Practise only as many times as you have breakfast. — Shinichi Suzuki

Children learn to smile from their parents. — Shinichi 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

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

Eternity is the Absolute present. — D.T. 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

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

To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience. — D.T. Suzuki

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions. — Ichiro Suzuki

New Year's cards from friends -
colored patterns
of my life — Mitsu 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

You are nuttier than a fruitcake, that's what you are! — L.T. Suzuki

When you mail Ichiro something from the States, you only have to use that name on the address and he gets it (in Japan). He's that big. — Ichiro Suzuki

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious. — D.T. 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

We do not realize that as soon as our thoughts cease and all attempts at forming ideas are forgotten the Buddha reveals himself before us. — D.T. Suzuki

TRANSIENCY We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence. — Shunryu 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

I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true! — C.B. Murphy

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

Even though it is midnight, dawn is here; even though dawn comes, it is nighttime. — 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

If it is raining out, do not walk fast, because it is raining everywhere. — Shunryu 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

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

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. — Shunryu Suzuki