NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 683

 

• ·       “The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous.” - Shunryu Suzuki

  ·       “When you are practicing Zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your mind, let it come in, and let it go out.” - Shunryu Suzuki

  ·       “There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment.” - Shunryu Suzuki

  ·       “If you think you will get something from practicing Zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.” - Shunryu Suzuki

  ·       “In our everyday life our thinking is ninety-nine percent self-centered. ‘Why do I have suffering? Why do I have trouble?’” - Shunryu Suzuki

  ·       “We should forget all about some particular teaching; we should not ask which is good or bad. There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment, in every existence. That is the true existence.” - Shunryu Suzuki

  ·       “And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true nonattachment.” - Shunryu Suzuki

  ·       “When you feel disagreeable, it is better for you to sit. There is no other way to accept your problem and work on it.” - Shunryu Suzuki

  ·       “If you want to obtain perfect calmness in your Zazen, you should not be bothered by the various images you find in your mind.” - Shunryu Suzuki

  ·       “We cannot force anything.” - Shunryu Suzuki

  ·       “Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different; in essence they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.” - Shunryu Suzuki