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Shunryu Suzuki Quotes: So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself, without sticking to an old self.
         

So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself, without sticking to an old self.


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Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.



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When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.



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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.



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Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.



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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.



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It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.



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When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'





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