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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.
D.T. Suzuki
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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.
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Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature. This is because Zen has come to the definite conclusion that the ordinary logical process of reasoning is powerless to give final satisfaction to our deepest spiritual needs.
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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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To live - is that not enough?
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To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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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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You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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Unless we die to ourselves, we can never be alive again.
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Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.
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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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The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we cut to pieces by recklessly applying the murderous knife of intellectual surgery?
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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions Zen is wedded to poetry.
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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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Zen has no business with ideas.
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Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
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Though perhaps less universally known than such figures as Einstein or Gandhi (who became symbols of our time) Daisetz Suzuki was no less remarkable a man than these. And though his work may not have had such resounding and public effect, he contributed no little to the spiritual and intellectual revolution of our time.
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