D.T. Suzuki QUOTES

81 " Uma criança está se afogando; eu entro na água, e a criança é salva. Isso é tudo "

― D.T. Suzuki , An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

82 " Perhaps there is after all nothing mysterious in Zen. Everything is open to your full view. If you eat your food and keep yourself cleanly dressed and work on the farm to raise your rice or vegetables, you are doing all that is required of you on this earth, and the infinite is realized in you. "

― D.T. Suzuki , Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series

83 " When a humble
flower in the crannied wall is understood, the whole
universe and all things in it and out of it are understood. "

― D.T. Suzuki , An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

84 " deepest spiritual experience. "

― D.T. Suzuki , Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series

85 " Being practical and directly to the point, Zen never wastes time or words in explanation. Its answers are always curt and pithy; there is nothing circumlocutory in Zen; the master's words come out spontaneously and without a moment's delay. A gong is struck and its vibrations instantly follow. If we are not on the alert we fail to catch them; a mere winking and we miss the mark forever. "

― D.T. Suzuki , An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

86 " Life is an art, and like perfect art
it should be self-forgetting; there ought not to be any trace
of effort or painful feeling. Life, according to Zen, ought to
be lived as a bird flies through the air or as a fish swims in
the water. "

― D.T. Suzuki

87 " An absolute affirmation must rise from the fiery crater of life itself. "

― D.T. Suzuki , An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

88 " Christians as well as Buddhists can practise Zen just as big fish and small fish are both contentedly living in the same ocean. Zen is the ocean, Zen is the air, Zen is the mountain, Zen is thunder and lightning, the spring flower, summer heat, and winter snow; nay, more than that, Zen is the man. "

― D.T. Suzuki , An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

89 " With the development of Zen, mysticism has ceased to be mystical; it is no more the spasmodic product of an abnormally endowed mind. For Zen reveals itself in the most uninteresting and uneventful life of a plain man of the street, recognizing the fact of living in the midst of life as it is lived. Zen systematically trains the mind to see this; it opens a man's eye to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden; and all these spiritual feats are accomplished without resorting to any doctrines but by simply asserting in the most direct way the truth that lies in our inner being. "

― D.T. Suzuki , An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

90 " Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis ; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance. In this respect Zen is quite chaotic if you choose to say so. Probably Zen followers may have sets of doctrines, but they have them on their own account, and for their own benefit; they do not owe the fact to Zen. Therefore, there are in Zen no sacred books or dogmatic tenets, nor are there any symbolic formulae through which an access might be gained into the signification of Zen. If I am asked, then, what Zen teaches, I would answer, Zen teaches nothing. Whatever teachings there are in Zen, they come out of one's own mind. We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way. Unless this pointing is teaching, there is certainly nothing in Zen purposely set up as its cardinal doctrines or as its fundamental philosophy. "

― D.T. Suzuki , An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

91 " Индийците са мистични, но техният мистицизъм е прекалено умозрителен, прекалено съзерцателен, прекалено сложен и, нещо повече, — сякаш няма реална, жизнена връзка с конкретния свят, в който съществуваме. Далекоизточният мистицизъм, напротив, е непосредствен, практичен, учудващо прост и не би могъл да прерасне в нищо друго освен в Дзен. "

― D.T. Suzuki , An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

92 " Birth in the Pure Land is an event that takes place while we are still living in this life... A student asked a teacher, 'A bird freed from the cage---what does he eat?' The teacher replied, 'You come through the cage yourself, then I will tell you. "

― D.T. Suzuki

93 " As far as the content goes, there is none in either *satori* or Zen that can be described or presented or demonstrated for your intellectual appreciation. For Zen has no business with ideas, and *satori* is a sort of inner perception -- not the perception, indeed, of a single individual object but the perception of Reality itself, so to speak. "

― D.T. Suzuki , An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

94 " However innumerable sentient beings are, I vow to save them; However inexhaustible the passions are, I vow to extinguish them; However immeasurable the Dharmas are, I vow to study them; However incomparable the Buddha-truth is, I vow to attain it. "

― D.T. Suzuki , The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk

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