Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki

Shunryu Suzuki

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it….In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.

Life

Love

Weed

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A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.

Bows

Disciple

Masters

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A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, “Why is there so much suffering?” Suzuki Roshi replied, “No reason.

Emotion

Students

Suffering

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A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.

Animal

Cows

Doe

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All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

Mistake

Reality

Thinking

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An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.

Doe

Enlightenment

Truth

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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

Long

Reality

Shadow

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As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

Awareness

Saws

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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.

Joy

People

Thinking

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Discipline is creating the situation.

Creating

Discipline

Situation

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