For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.
Shunryu SuzukiRead
If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.
Interpretation
Pride and discouragement can hinder your personal growth and practice.
This quote by Shunryu Suzuki emphasizes that feelings of pride in one’s success or discouragement from unmet ideals can create barriers to true growth and practice. It suggests that clinging to these emotions may lead to stagnation, confining one's potential within self-imposed limits.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage students to embrace their journey, regardless of setbacks.
For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.
As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.
No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.
Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.
When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore.
Leave your front door and your back door open. _x000D_ Allow your thoughts to come and go. _x000D_ Just don't serve them tea.
I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It’s a very, very slippery slope.
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.
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