#shunryu suzuki

[entheognosis]

[mountain-sage]

[mcromwell]

Just found out there's a full audiobook on YT of one of my favorite Zen books. I can't tell you what to do, but if you find yourself listening to this, you may get something out of it like I did.

[vesora]

my opinion + quotes at the end

𓈒⠀𓂃⠀⠀˖⠀𓇬⠀˖⠀⠀𓂃⠀𓈒

the concept thinking from the end in itself can bring lack i believe

there is no beginning, there is no middle and there is no end.

there is just now.

there is no 'end', there is just a different persona to the one 'you' - as in your true self - has now. every possibility is happening all at once - all NOW.

there is no time lag. stop looking outside of you for answers. realise who you really are and that is - God. just bask in that for a bit.

there is no trying. there is no effort. there just is. you just are.

just surrender and eliminate the possibility of problems existing.

you are no-thing, therefore you can be any-thing. you are formless, therefore you can take shape of any form. you are free.

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"You are a master. Not a victim, not a slave. You are here to be a God, a creator, a chooser, a responsible party of creation-- a free agent of Infinity." - Bentinho Massaro

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"Be alive! This is a dream! Move on, create, be fearless, be immortal, be timeless, be unafraid. Be focused on what you do not yet know; be focused in the new-- in the non-physical" -Bentinho Massaro

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"The mind creates time and space, and takes its own creations for reality. All is here and now, but we do not see it. Truly, all is in me and by me. There is nothing else. The very idea of “else” is a disaster and a calamity." -Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“I will be” is a confession that “I am not “ The Father's will is always “I AM.” Until you realize that YOU are the Father (there is only one I AM and your infinite self is that I AM), your will is always “I will be.” ― Neville Goddard, The Power of Awareness

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Nothing outside yourself can cause you any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. - Shunryu Suzuki

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Secret Beyond the Door (1948) - Dir. Fritz Lang 

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Wherever you are, enlightenment is there ~ Shunryu Suzuki You think that you can only establish true practice after you attain enlightenment, but it is not so. True practice is established in delusion, in frustration. If you make some mistake, that is where to establish your practice. There is no other place for you to establish your practice. We talk about enlightenment, but in its true sense perfect enlightenment is beyond our understanding, beyond our experience. Even in our imperfect practice enlightenment is there. We just don’t know it. So the point is to find the true meaning of practice before we attain enlightenment. Wherever you are, enlightenment is there. If you stand up right where you are, that is enlightenment. – Shunryu Suzuki from the book “Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen” ISBN: 978-0060957544

[thecalminside]

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.

-Shunryu Suzuki

[commonplacebuddhism]

This is the most important teaching: not two, and not one. Our body and mind are not two and not one. If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one. We usually think that if something is not one, it is more than one; if it is not singular, it is plural. But in actual experience, our life is not only plural, but also singular. Each one of us is both dependent and independent.

— Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki (2002 edition)

[kkdas]