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.
—D. T. Suzuki
Topics: Zen
In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.
—D. T. Suzuki
Topics: Spirituality, Spirit
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
—D. T. Suzuki
Topics: Performance, Effort
When there is no crookedness in one’s heart, we say that one is natural and childlike.
—D. T. Suzuki
We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior’s life.
—D. T. Suzuki
Topics: Zen
Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
—D. T. Suzuki
True wisdom means the freedom from self-centeredness, for self-centeredness distorts reality.
—D. T. Suzuki
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.
—D. T. Suzuki
Topics: Zen
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one’s hum drum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.
—D. T. Suzuki
Topics: Zen
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 pace in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden
—D. T. Suzuki
Topics: Zen
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