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Warm-Hearted Practice

When your practice improves, and you have good control over your desires and your everyday life, then you will have big freedom from everything. That is the goal of our practice, both for priests and for lay people.

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Shunryu Suzuki
2013
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Samu and Soji

Soji refers to cleaning up: sweeping, mopping, putting things in order after some activity...“Sweeping the path is [akin to] sweeping the mind.” Single-minded activity, zazen in motion.

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Shunryu Suzuki
2018
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The True Dragon

If you are carving your own dragon, says Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, you will never see the real one. That’s why true zazen requires giving up your personal style of practice.

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Shunryu Suzuki
2017
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The Lamp of Zazen

The point of zazen, says Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, is to live each moment in complete combustion, like a clean-burning kerosene lamp.

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Shunryu Suzuki
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Small Mind, Big Mind

Thoughts in the mind are like waves in the ocean: you can never fully stop them from arising, explains Zen master Shunryu Suzuki.

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Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
2018
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Wherever You Are, Enlightenment Is There

In our practice the most important thing is to realize that we have buddhanature. Intellectually we may know this, but it is rather difficult to accept.

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Shunryu Suzuki
2017
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Suzuku-Roshi at Tassajara

David Chadwick describes the early days of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and the warmth, depth and humor with which this great Zen teacher related to the American mind.

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David Chadwick
2016
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