Barston Suzuki Quotes

#1. When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No more medicine. #Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

#2. A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha. #Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

#3. When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like. #Quote by Ichiro Suzuki

#4. The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving #Quote by D.T. Suzuki

#5. The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home. #Quote by David Suzuki

#6. I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true! #Quote by C.B. Murphy

#7. No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down. #Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

#8. Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts. #Quote by David Suzuki

#9. If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts. #Quote by David Suzuki

#10. When a thing is denied, the very denial involves something not denied. #Quote by D.T. Suzuki

#11. Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism. #Quote by D.T. Suzuki

#12. The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. #Quote by D.T. Suzuki

#13. The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality ... is the highest act of wisdom #Quote by D.T. Suzuki

#14. If you seek for freedom, you cannot find it. Absolute freedom itself is necessary before you can acquire absolute freedom. That is our practice. Our way is not always to go in one direction. Sometimes we go east; sometimes we go west. To go one mile to the west means to go back one mile to the east. Usually if you go one mile to the east it is the opposite of going one mile to the west. But if it is possible to go one mile to the east, that means it is possible to go one mile to the west. This is freedom. Without this freedom you cannot be concentrated on what you do. You may think you are concentrated on something, but before you obtain this freedom, you will have some uneasiness in what you are doing. Because you are bound by some idea of going east or west, your activity is in dichotomy or duality. As long as you are caught by duality you cannot attain absolute freedom, and you cannot concentrate. #Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

#15. I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me. #Quote by David Suzuki

#16. I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive. #Quote by David Suzuki

#17. The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. #Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

#18. Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances. #Quote by D.T. Suzuki

#19. We emphasize straightforwardness. You should be true to your feelings, and to your mind, expressing yourself without any reservations. This helps the listener to understand more easily. #Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

#20. So what's Pakistan like? she asked. I told her Pakistan was many things, from seaside to desert to farmland stretched between rivers and canals; I told her that I had driven with my parents and my brother to China on the Karakoram Highway, passing along the bottoms of valleys higher than the tops of the Alps; I told her that alcohol was illegal for Muslims to buy and so I had a Christian bootlegger who delivered booze to my house in a Suzuki pickup. #Quote by Mohsin Hamid

#21. Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food. #Quote by David Suzuki

#22. If you want to discover the true meaning of Zen in your everyday life, you have to understand the meaning of keeping your mind on your breathing and your body in the right posture in zazen. #Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

#23. To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment. #Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

#24. Unless we die to ourselves, we can never be alive again. #Quote by D.T. Suzuki

#25. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities. #Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

#26. Add together the collective global impact of population, consumption, the global economy, and technology and it is clear how we have become a geological force. Human activity has so disrupted processes on the planet with consequences that what were once called "acts of god" or "natural disasters" now carry the undeniable imprint of our species. We have become almost like gods as we affect natural events such as weather and climate, earthquakes, floods, drought, mega-fires, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Once, our fear of gods acted to restrain human excesses, but now we have ourselves become the gods. #Quote by David Suzuki

#27. If someone is watching you, you can escape from him, but if no one is watching, you cannot escape from yourself. #Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

#28. If he or she really goes about it in earnest, anyone can cultivate ability in ten years, I believe. Even in one year, shortcomings can be changed into good points if only we set our aims high enough. Continuing for ten years, we can become outstanding indeed ... There is no limit to our shortcomings. Until we die, we should spare no time or effort in changing our weaknesses to merits. To do so can be pleasant and interesting. We can become like the horse that starts last and yet outruns the field, reaching the wire first; it is the same fun. #Quote by Shinichi Suzuki

#29. Asakawa himself didn't much care if the company made money or lost it. All that mattered to him was whether or not the work was engaging. No matter how easy a job was physically, if it didn't involve imagination, it usually ended up exhausting you. #Quote by Koji Suzuki

#30. It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to become a little better as people, a little happier. #Quote by Shinichi Suzuki

#31. I'm not a big guy and hopefully kids could look at me and see that I'm not muscular and not physically imposing, that I'm just a regular guy. So if somebody with a regular body can get into the record books, kids can look at that. That would make me happy. #Quote by Ichiro Suzuki

#32. people astray and into potentially horrific acts. Both of these views relate to the world that is delivered to us by our senses. There is a third way that Buddhist practitioners know as "Emptiness." This is the unseen, formless energy that extrudes itself as the myriad forms of the world, creating and then retrieving them back to the source. Suzuki Roshi suggested that we think of it as the white screen in a movie theater, the unseen background against which the shimmering movie of #Quote by Peter Coyote

#33. If there is anything Zen strongly emphasizes it is the attainment of freedom; that is, freedom from all unnatural encumbrances. Meditation is something artificially put on; it does not belong to the native activity of the mind. Upon what do the fowls of the air meditate? Upon what do the fish in the water meditate? They fly; they swim. Is not that enough? Who wants to fix his mind on the unity of God and man, or on the nothingness of life? Who wants to be arrested in the daily manifestations of his life-activity by such meditations as the goodness of a divine being or the everlasting fire of hell? #Quote by D.T. Suzuki

#34. Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days. #Quote by David Suzuki

#35. To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body. #Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

#36. You should not be absent-minded. But to be aware of the movement does not mean to be aware of your small self, but rather of your universal nature ... #Quote by Shunryu Suzuki