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Shunryu Suzuki descendente espiritual do grande mestre Zen do século XIII, Dogen. Profundamente respeitado no Japão, como mestre Zen, foi para os Estados Unidos em 1958, com a intenção de passar dois ou três anos. Porém ficou tão impressionado com a seriedade que encontrou entre os norte-americanos interessados no Zen, que acabou por tornar-se residente permanente, fixando-se em São Francisco. Graças às pessoas que queriam participar de suas práticas, formou-se um grupo de meditação denominado Zen Center, que sob sua orientação, se expandiu para mais três locais, incluindo o Zen Mountain Center, o primeiro mosteiro de treinamento Zen fora da Ásia. Shunryu Suzuki foi, sem dúvida, um dos mais influentes mestres Zen do nosso tempo.

Referência: Suzuki, Shunryu. Mente Zen, Mente de Principiante; editado por Trudy Dixon com prefácio de Huston Smith e introdução de Richard Baker; tradução de Odete Lara. São Paulo: Palas Athena, 1994. ISBN-85-7242-006-1

✵ 18. Maio 1904 – 4. Dezembro 1971   •   Outros nomes 鈴木俊隆
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Shunryu Suzuki frases e citações

“Há muitas possibilidades na mente do principiante, mas poucas na do perito.”

Shunryu Suzuki

Mente zen, mente de principiante

De idade

“Quando você compreende uma coisa em profundidade, compreende tudo. Mas quando você tenta entender tudo, não entende nada. O melhor é compreender a si mesmo, então você compreenderá tudo.”

Shunryu Suzuki

Mente zen, mente de principiante

De idade

Shunryu Suzuki: Frases em inglês

“Practice does not mean that whatever you do, even lying down, is zazen. When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice….
When you sit, you will sit. When you eat, you will eat…. If you say,”It doesn’t matter,” it means that you are making some excuse to do something in your own way with your small mind. It means that you are to some particular thing or way. That is not what we mean when we say, “Just to sit is enough,” or “Whatever you do is zazen.””

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Shunryu Suzuki livro Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Of course, everything you do is zazen, but if so, there is no need to say it.
Fonte: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1973), p. 41

“Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.”

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Respect For Things (page 81)
Not Always So, practicing the true spirit of Zen (2002)

“Real Freedom is to not feel limited when wearing this Zen robe, this troublesome formal robe. Similarly, in our busy life we should wear this civilization without being bothered by it, without ignoring it, without being caught by it.”

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Not Always So (page 95)
Not Always So, practicing the true spirit of Zen (2002)

“Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.”

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Pt. 1 : Right Practice "The Marrow of Zen", p. 29
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1973)

“You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.”

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Pt. 1 : Right Practice "Mind Weeds", p. 26
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1973)

“When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.”

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Shikantaza: Living Fully In Each Moment (page 4)
Not Always So, practicing the true spirit of Zen (2002)

“When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.”

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Quoted in 'Enter the Heart of the Fire : A collection of Mystical Poems (1981) by Mary E. Giles and Kathryn Hohlwein

“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. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.”

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Prologue
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1973)

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