· “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
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