Quotes by D.T. Suzuki

D.T. Suzuki

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.

Ideas

Reality

Ruins

Copying is slavery. The letter must never be followed, only the spirit is to be grasped. Higher affirmations live in the spirit. And where is the spirit? Seek it in your everyday experience, and therein lies abundance of proof for all you need.

Everyday

Experience

Lying

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

Emptiness

Facts

Infinite

Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.

Enlightenment

Everyday

Two

Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.

Aim

Marksman

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

Done

Great Work

Thinking

I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods:-in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No worldly discussion is necessary, or any explanation.

Book

Boys

Hands

If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.

Enlightenment

Ignorance

Silence

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.

Moving

Single Mom

Spiritual

Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

Intellect

Spheres

Streams

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Acceptance

Aim

Alive

Art

Believe

Book

Borrowed

Boys

Buddhism

Conceptualization

Confined

Cutting

Dies

Doctrine

Done

Ego

Emptiness

Enlightenment

Enough

Essence

Everyday

Experience

Eye

Facts

Feet

Firsts

Forgotten

Great Work

Growing

Grows

Hands

Hardest

Heart

Historical

Ideas

Ignorance

Infinite

Intellect

Intellectual

Knives

Lakes

Life

Loneliness

Lying

Marksman

Mean

Men

Mind

Mistake

Moral

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Quotes by D.T. Suzuki

D.T. Suzuki

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.

Copying is slavery. The letter must never be followed, only the spirit is to be grasped. Higher affirmations live in the spirit. And where is the spirit? Seek it in your everyday experience, and therein lies abundance of proof for all you need.

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.

Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods:-in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No worldly discussion is necessary, or any explanation.

If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.

Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

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