Daily Zen - Tuesday, October 29

When you try to understand everything,

you will not understand anything. 

The best way is to understand yourself,

and then you will understand everything.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Wednesday, June 5

Renunciation is not giving up 

the things of the world, but

accepting that they go away.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 4

When we do not expect anything

we can be ourselves. 

That is our way to live fully 

in each moment of time.

~ Shunryü Suzuki

Daily Zen - Friday, February 24

Nothing we see or hear

is perfect. But right

there in the imperfection

is perfect reality.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Monday, December 26

Treat every moment 

as your last.

It is not practice

for something else.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Wednesday, November 9

To have some deep feeling 

about Buddhism is not the point;

we just do what we should do,

like eating supper, going to bed.

This is Buddhism.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Weekend Zen, August 13-14

Nothing we see or hear is

perfect. But right there in the

imperfection is perfect reality. 

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Monday, December 27

When we do not expect anything

we can be ourselves. That is our way,

to live fully in each moment of time.

~ Shunryu Suzuki 

Weekend Zen, October 16-17

When we hear the sound of pine trees

on a windy day, perhaps the wind is

just blowing, and the pine tree is just

standing in the wind. That is all that they

are doing. But the people who listen to

the wind in the tree will write a poem, 

or will feel something unusual. 

That is, I think, the way everything is.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Thursday, June 24

Wherever you are, you are one with

the clouds and one with the sun and stars

you see. You are one with everything.

That is more true than I can say,

and more true than you can hear.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Friday, August 28

Renunciation is not giving up

the things of the world, but

accepting that they go away.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Weekend Zen, May 9-10

In each inhalation 

and each exhalation, 

there are countless

instants of time.

Your intention is to 

live in each instant.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Tuesday, February 4

Whatever you do, 

just do it without 

expecting anyone's help.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Friday, December 13

When you try hard 

to make your own way, 

you will help others...

Before you make 

your own way, 

you cannot help anyone, 

and no one can help you.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 30

As long as you seek for 

something, you will get 

the shadow of reality

and not reality itself.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Tuesday, July 16

The most important point

is to accept yourself and

stand on your own two feet.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Tuesday, April 10

Nothing we see or hear

is perfect. But right there in the

imperfection is perfect reality.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Tuesday, October 3

As soon as you see something, you already

start to intellectualize it. As soon as you

intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Friday, September 23

As long as you seek for something, you will get 

the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Daily Zen - Tuesday, March 8

The most important point is to accept yourself

 and stand on your two feet.

~ Shunryu Suzuki