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Shunryu Suzuki Quotes: When you sit, everything sits with you.
         

When you sit, everything sits with you.


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When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.



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Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.



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Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.



If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything



The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.



Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.



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As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.



It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.



When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'





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