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Zen has no business with ideas.

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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.
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The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving
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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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Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances.
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I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
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Zen teaches nothing it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.
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Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.
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Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.
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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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You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
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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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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.
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When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, What do I need to get to be happy? The question becomes, What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?
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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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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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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.
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The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
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