Quotes by Teaching Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way. Shunryu Suzuki teachingrealityart The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the teaching is not ourselves. It is some explanation of ourselves. To study the teaching is to know yourselves. That is why we do not ever attach to the teaching, or to the teacher. The moment you meet a teacher you should leave the teacher, and you should be independent. You want a teacher so that you can be independent. So you study yourselves. You have the teacher for yourselves, not for the teacher. Shunryu Suzuki independentteachingteacher When something dies is the greatest teaching. Shunryu Suzuki diesteaching There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment. Shunryu Suzuki momentsteachingshould The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life. Shunryu Suzuki being-yourselflearningteaching Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere. Shunryu Suzuki teaching-religionteachingreligion Success in life comes to those who simply refuse to give up; individuals with vision so strong that obstacles, failure and loss only act as teachings Silken Laumann giving-upstrongteaching Torbjorn (Hansen, Magnus Carlsen's first teacher) himself went from 2104 to 2204 in rating during the year he trained with Magnus. This reflects the experience I have had. One learns nearly as much from teaching others. Simen Agdestein teachingteacheryears Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. Simeon Denis Poisson teachinglifescience Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it. Simeon Denis Poisson teachinglife-istwo When you sit in the full lotus position, your left foot is on your right thigh and your right foot is on your left thigh. When we cross our legs like this, even though we have a right leg and a left leg, they become one. The position expresses the oneness of duality: not two and not one. This is the most important teaching: not two, and not one. Our body and mind are not two and not one. 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 teachingtwothinking Without ignoring the objective side of the truth, it has to be subjective as well, Buddha's whole teaching just for you, something you can taste. Not something to believe in but to discover, to experience. Shunryu Suzuki tasteteachingbelieve There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin. Simon Greenleaf teachingtruthmay If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing religion, teaching classes in religion, preaching in a local church. That is fine and noble activity. But I do not feel entitled to engage in it. So for me philosophy is my fate. Simon Critchley teachingreligiousphilosophy Technology is teaching us to be human again. Simon Mainwaring technologyhumansteaching I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff. Simon Helberg kitchenignorantteaching The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington. Simon Newcomb fifteentwentiesteaching These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind. Sigmund Freud teachingreligiousthinking Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches. Sigmund Freud teachingfeetart Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect. Sigmund Freud teachingreligiousviews«160161162163164165166167168169170»
