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Shunryu Suzuki

To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.

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Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

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As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few. . . . In the beginner's mind there is no thought, 'I have attained something. ' All self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind. When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners. We can really learn something.

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Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

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If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

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