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“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ”
―“A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"
Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.”
― Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "ZEN Mind, Beginner's Mind"“Where ever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.”
―“Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice“I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color--something which exists before all forms and colors appear... No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.”
―“Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.”
―“Enjoy your problems.”
―“Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.”
―“To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice“What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice“Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.”
―“The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.”
―“We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice“When something dies is the greatest teaching.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice“The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.
So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others, and you will be helped by others.
Before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice“Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself. We say, "It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice“While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gaining ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice“To live is enough.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice“When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice“In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.
In our scriptures (Samyuktagama Sutra, volume 33), it is said that there are four kinds of horses: excellent ones, good ones, poor ones, and bad ones. The best horse will run slow and fast, right and left, at the driver's will, before it sees the shadow of the whip; the second best will run as well as the first one does, just before the whip reaches its skin; the third one will run when it feels pain on its body; the fourth will run after the pain penetrates to the marrow of its bones. You can imagine how difficult it is for the fourth one to learn how to run!”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice“In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.”
―“Emotionally we have many problems, but these problems are not actual problems; they are something created; they are problems pointed out by our self-centered ideas or views.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice“The world is its own magic.”
―“Time goes from present to past.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice“When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.”
―“Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.”
―“We should not hoard knowledge; we should be free from our knowledge.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice“The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
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