In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.
Shunryu SuzukiMoment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.
Shunryu SuzukiAs long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.
Shunryu SuzukiIn the Lotus Sutra, Buddha says to light up one corner - not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are.
Shunryu SuzukiWhen he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.
Shunryu SuzukiChristopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.
Shunryu Suzuki