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Shunryu Suzuki Quotes about Giving

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Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your

Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.

Shunryu Suzuki
Sheep, People, Giving

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

Shunryu Suzuki
Giving, Going Away, Renounce

The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

Shunryu Suzuki
Sheep, Giving, Meditation

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

Shunryu Suzuki
Sheep, Giving, Cows
Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood

Shunryu Suzuki
Practice, Giving, Mind

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