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Here are a few quotes from D.T. Suzuki:

1. ”Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.”

2. ”The point of Zen practice is to become fully alive in each moment.”

3. ”The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.”

4. ”The object of Zen meditation is to suspend all intellectual activity and to merge into tranquility.”

5. ”The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.”

6. ”In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”

7. ”The only way to understand Zen is to live Zen without clinging to any ideas about it.”

8. ”Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense.”

9. ”Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.”

10. ”The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.”

These quotes capture some of Suzuki’s key ideas about Zen and its practice.

— D. T. Suzuki, ChatOn