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Shunryu Suzuki
Age: 67 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 18
Died: 1971
Died: December 4
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Time goes from present to past.
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Christopher McCandless:I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.
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Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.
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Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.
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There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it.
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Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.
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Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.
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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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You can't make a date with enlightenment.
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We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.
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When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.
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There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment
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To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.
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When you sit, everything sits with you.
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Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.
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We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.
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To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.
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When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.
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If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after you attain it, it is nothing special.
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The way that helps will not be the same it changes according to the situation.
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