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Zen has no business with ideas.

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To live - is that not enough?
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Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.
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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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Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
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Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden
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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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Zen teaches nothing it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.
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Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
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Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.
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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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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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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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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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The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.
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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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Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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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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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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