Unless we die to ourselves, we can never be alive again.
- D.T. Suzuki
More Quotes By D.T. Suzuki
- When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, “What do I need to get to...
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- The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read...
- When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism,...
- Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
- The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act,...
- Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite...
- We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which...
- Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it...
- Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you...
- If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to...
- Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole...
- Zen opens a man’s eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges...
- Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing...
- When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me....
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