Quotes by : Shunryu Suzuki

While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become....

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few

Zen is nothing to get excited about.

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"Suzuki Roshi replied,....

The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything....

A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits it not open to things as they are.....

In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.

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

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately,....

I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe....