Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind. You should not say, I know what Zen is, or I have attained enlightenment. This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.-When you are sitting in the middle of your own problem, which is more real to you: your problem or you yourself? The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact. -Knowing that your life is short, to enjoy it day after day, moment after moment, is the life of form is form and emptiness is emptiness.-You may feel as if you are doing something special, but actually it is only the expression of your true nature; it is the activity which appeases your inmost desire. But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice.-The most important thing is to forget all gaining ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture.
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Shunryu Suzuki was Japanese buddhist monk who popularized zen in the us. Shunryu Suzuki was a Sōtō Zen monk and teacher who helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States, and is renowned for founding the first Zen Buddhist monastery outside Asia. Suzuki founded San Francisco Zen Center which, along with its affiliate temples, comprises one of the most influential Zen organizations in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia →