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Sage | Source | Quote |
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Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Even in wrong practice, when you realize it and continue, there is right practice. |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Don’t create problems which are extra. Just the problems you already have are enough. |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Because emptiness has no limit and no beginning, we can believe in it… If you really understand this, tears will flow.” |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Open yourself and give up everything |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | The cause of conflict is some fixed or one-sided idea… there is not particular way in true practice. You should find your own way |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Limit your activity to what you can do just now.. when you sit, just sit; when you eat, just eat. |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Meditation practice is just medicine… sometimes it’s necessary but you should not mistake medicine for food. |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | When we forget ourselves, we are the true activity of reality itself and there is no problem whatsoever in this world. |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Once you are in the middle of delusion, there is no end to delusion. You will be involved in deluded ideas one after another. |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | When you are you, you see things as they are, and you become one with your surroundings. There is your true self. |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Cultivate your own spirit, don's go seeking for something outside of yourself. |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | When your practice is calm and ordinary, everyday life itself is enlightenment. |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment; there is no connection whatsoever. |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Forget everything and discover something quite new and different moment after moment... As long as we have some definite idea about the past or some hope in the future, we cannot be serious with the moment that exists right now. |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | In love there should be hate, or non-attachment. And in hate there should be love, or acceptance. Love and hate are one thing. We should accept weeds, despite how we feel about them. |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Because you lose yourself, your problem will be a problem for you. If you do not lose yourself, then even though you have difficulty, there is actually no problem whatsoever. |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for... there is no Hinayana way or Mahayana way. Only because you seek to gain something through rigid formal practice does it become a problem |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | One who thinks he is a good father is not a good father; one who thinks he is a good husband is not a good husband. One who thinks he is one of the worst husbands may be a good one if he is always trying to be a good one with single-hearted effort. |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | If it is unattainable, how can we attain it?... Even though it is impossible, we have to do it because our true nature wants us to. |
Yuanwu Keqin | Zen Letters | If you start seeking, you are unable to see… As soon as you seek, it is like grasping at shadows. |