Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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Shunryu Suzuki RoshiZen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Even in wrong practice, when you realize it and continue, there is right practice.

Shunryu Suzuki RoshiZen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Don’t create problems which are extra. Just the problems you already have are enough.

Shunryu Suzuki RoshiZen 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 RoshiZen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Open yourself and give up everything

Shunryu Suzuki RoshiZen 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 RoshiZen 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 RoshiZen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Meditation practice is just medicine… sometimes it’s necessary but you should not mistake medicine for food.

Shunryu Suzuki RoshiZen 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 RoshiZen 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 RoshiZen 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 RoshiZen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Cultivate your own spirit, don's go seeking for something outside of yourself.

Shunryu Suzuki RoshiZen Mind, Beginner's Mind

When your practice is calm and ordinary, everyday life itself is enlightenment.

Shunryu Suzuki RoshiZen 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 RoshiZen 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 RoshiZen 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 RoshiZen 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 RoshiZen 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 RoshiZen 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 RoshiZen 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 KeqinZen Letters

If you start seeking, you are unable to see… As soon as you seek, it is like grasping at shadows.