Quotes by : Shunryu Suzuki

When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions;....

In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it....

Zen is nothing to get excited about.

We emphasize straightforwardness. You should be true to your feelings, and to your mind, expressing yourself....

Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes....

To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating....

Before we were born we had no feeling; we were one with the universe. This is called "mind-only," or....

The important thing in our understanding is to have a smooth, free-thinking way of observation. We have....

So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are is....

Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind. You should not....