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If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.
Shunryu Suzuki
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Shunryu Suzuki
Age: 67 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 18
Died: 1971
Died: December 4
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Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.
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Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.
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An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.
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The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is.
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When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
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If you want to read a letter from the Buddha's world, it is necessary to understand Buddha's world.
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In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood
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Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to.
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Happiness is sorrow sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different, in essence they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.
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Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.
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The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.
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We must exist right here, right now!
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Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly it widens the heart so that it may feel the eternity of time and infinity of space in every throb it gives us a life within the world as if we were moving about in paradise.
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Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice there is no other way of life than this way of life.
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If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].
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No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.
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To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.
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