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The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.

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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.
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Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth.
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We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life.
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The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him.
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Unless we die to ourselves, we can never be alive again.
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Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
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When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.
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When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible.
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