Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

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In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few — Shunryu Suzuki, 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, — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Those who are attached only to the result of their effort will not have any chance to appreciate it, because the result — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions; you should just — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be jus — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits it not open to things as they are. — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are is the most important — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
When we say something, our subjective intention or situation is always involved. So there is no perfect word; some disto — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
We emphasize straightforwardness. You should be true to your feelings, and to your mind, expressing yourself without any — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
The important thing in our understanding is to have a smooth, free-thinking way of observation. We have to think and to — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else. — Shunryu Suzuki, 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 sh — Shunryu Suzuki, 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 go — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous...To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious mead — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To ma — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
In our practice we have no particular purpose or goal, nor any special object of worship. — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Zen is nothing to get excited about. — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment. — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice