If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything Shunryu Suzuki More Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki More Quotes From Shunryu Suzuki It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now. Shunryu Suzuki enlightenment truth-is realizing To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body. Shunryu Suzuki mind doe mean There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen. Shunryu Suzuki deep-understanding understanding needs The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing. Shunryu Suzuki nature time beautiful The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field. Shunryu Suzuki meditation sheep giving When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free. Shunryu Suzuki karma procrastination waiting If you want to read a letter from the Buddha's world, it is necessary to understand Buddha's world. Shunryu Suzuki want letters world Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there is some communication. Shunryu Suzuki communication say-anything people 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 mind two thinking 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. Shunryu Suzuki equal different all-things There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love...Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self-love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love. Shunryu Suzuki frustration hate love Enlightenment is not a complete remedy. Shunryu Suzuki remedy enlightenment If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing in nothing, believing in something which has no form or no color, which is ready to take form or color. This enlightenment is the immutable truth. It is on this orginal truth that our activity, our thinking, and our practice should be based. Shunryu Suzuki buddhist mean believe 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 teaching two thinking If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice. Shunryu Suzuki involved practice thinking Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is masked from us by our assumption that there is a separation, that there is a problem. Shunryu Suzuki unions oneness assumption We must exist right here, right now! Shunryu Suzuki right-now 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 Shunryu Suzuki practice mind giving There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it. Shunryu Suzuki war 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 taste teaching believe
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