More from Shunryu Suzuka

  1. If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wal…
  2. To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.
  3. After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try v…
  4. Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good ha…
  5. Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this prac…
  6. So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself, without sti…
  7. You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in you mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.
  8. Take care of things, and they will take care of you.

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