Shunryu Suzuki Quotes about Reality

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Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

Shunryu Suzuki

Reality, Perfect, Imperfection

"Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Wherever You Are, Enlightenment Is There", p. 127, 2002.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

Shunryu Suzuki

Wisdom, Reality, Ego

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

Shunryu Suzuki

Reality, Long, Shadow

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.

Shunryu Suzuki

Art, Teaching, Reality

Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

Shunryu Suzuki

Mistake, Reality, Thinking

"Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Letters From Emptiness", p. 33, 2002.