For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.
Shunryu SuzukiRead
Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes mindfulness and the importance of taking each moment as it comes.
Shunryu Suzuki's quote encourages a mindset of living in the present, advocating for a patient and deliberate approach to life. By focusing on one step and one breath at a time, it suggests that we can cultivate awareness and clarity without being distracted by the desire for progress or achievements.
In practice
In a meditation workshop, when discussing mindfulness, this quote can serve as a reminder to participants.
For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.
If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.
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.
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Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?
Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.
Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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