5 Shunryu Suzuka Quotes on Self improvement

Shunryu Suzuka quotes on self improvement

4. There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

7. You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in you mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

9. After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little. If your mind has ideas of progress, you may say, 'Oh, this pace is terrible!' But actually it is not. When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself. So there is no need to worry about progress.

11. Hell is not punishment. It's training.

13. 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 harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.