Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground. - D.T. Suzuki

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God,” I moaned. “Do they use that stuff as rocket fuel?” “No one made you keep drinking it. ” “Hey, don’t get preachy. Besides, I had to be polite. ” “Sure,” she said.

D.T. Suzuki

Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.

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When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

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Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

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The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts

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Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape. " Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts.

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The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

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God,” I moaned. “Do they use that stuff as rocket fuel?” “No one made you keep drinking it. ” “Hey, don’t get preachy. Besides, I had to be polite. ” “Sure,” she said.

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