A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.
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Shunryu Suzuki
God is the Self of the world, but you can't see God for the same reason that, without a mirror, you can't see your own eyes, and you certainly can't bite your own teeth or look inside your head. Your self is that cleverly hidden...
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Alan W. Watts
On my journey from the fantastical to the practical, spirituality has gone from being a mystical experience to something very ordinary and a daily experience. Many don’t want this, instead they prefer spiritual grandeur, and I believe that is what keeps enlightenment at bay. We...
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Alaric Hutchinson
Render unto meditation the things that are meditation’s, and unto medication the things that are medication’s.
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Barry Graham
While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gaining ideas, all dualistic ideas. In...
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Shunryu Suzuki
More Quotes By Barry Graham
Render unto meditation the things that are meditation’s, and unto medication the things that are medication’s.
Zen probably won’t solve a single one of our problems. What it might do is help us relate differently to what we consider problems.
When we attach to a problem, we make the problem worse. When we attach to a solution, we make the problem worse.
