NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 605

 

• ·       “When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.” - Shunryu Suzuki

  ·       “Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.” - Shunryu Suzuki

  ·       “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” - Shunryu Suzuki

  ·       “When something dies is the greatest teaching.” - Shunryu Suzuki

  ·       “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.” - Shunryu Suzuki

  ·       “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