When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
Shunryu SuzukiYou want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?
Shunryu SuzukiAs long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.
Shunryu SuzukiYou must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself.
Shunryu SuzukiThe purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the teaching is not ourselves. It is some explanation of ourselves. To study the teaching is to know yourselves. That is why we do not ever attach to the teaching, or to the teacher. The moment you meet a teacher you should leave the teacher, and you should be independent. You want a teacher so that you can be independent. So you study yourselves. You have the teacher for yourselves, not for the teacher.
Shunryu Suzuki