To live - is that not enough? D.T. Suzuki More Quotes by D.T. Suzuki More Quotes From D.T. Suzuki Eternity is the Absolute present. D.T. Suzuki time inspirational life Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies. D.T. Suzuki buddhism philosophy facts Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability. D.T. Suzuki spirituality delight expression Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking. D.T. Suzuki great-work done thinking As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form. D.T. Suzuki ruins reality ideas A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oof the alone. D.T. Suzuki fishing simple sea We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way. D.T. Suzuki teach way The rocks are where they are- and this is their will. The rivers flow- and this is their will. The birds fly- this is their will. Human beings talk- this is their will. The seasons change, heaven sends down rain or snow, the earth occasionally shakes, the waves roll, the stars shine- each of them follows its own will. To be is to will and so is to become. D.T. Suzuki rocks stars rain To Zen, time and eternity are one. D.T. Suzuki eternity The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics. D.T. Suzuki ordinary facts thinking 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 space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden D.T. Suzuki eye heart men The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving D.T. Suzuki passion squares feet The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. D.T. Suzuki archery arrows art Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience. D.T. Suzuki personal-experiences experience ideas We do not realize that as soon as our thoughts cease and all attempts at forming ideas are forgotten the Buddha reveals himself before us. D.T. Suzuki realizing forgotten ideas Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself. D.T. Suzuki marksman aim That's why I love philosophy: no one wins. D.T. Suzuki philosophy-love winning philosophy Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature. This is because Zen has come to the definite conclusion that the ordinary logical process of reasoning is powerless to give final satisfaction to our deepest spiritual needs. D.T. Suzuki nature spiritual views Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism. D.T. Suzuki religious men believe Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water. D.T. Suzuki lakes rivers life
