Frasi di Shunryū Suzuki

Shunryū Suzuki , monaco e insegnante buddista giapponese.

✵ 18. Maggio 1904 – 4. Dicembre 1971   •   Altri nomi 鈴木俊隆
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Shunryū Suzuki frasi celebri

“Si dice che ci sono quattro tipi di cavalli: eccellenti, buoni, mediocri e cattivi. Il migliore correrà piano o forte, a destra o a sinistra, secondo la volontà del cavaliere, ancor prima di vedere l'ombra della frusta; il secondo miglior cavallo farà tutto bene come il primo, ma un attimo prima che la frusta lo raggiunga; il terzo correrà quando avvertirà dolore sul corpo; il quarto correrà solo dopo che il dolore gli sarà penetrato fin nel midollo delle ossa. Immaginate un po' quanto è difficile per il quarto cavallo imparare a correre! Ascoltando questa storia, quasi tutti vorremmo essere il cavallo migliore. Se non è possibile essere il migliore, vogliamo essere il secondo dopo di lui. È questo, credo, il modo consueto di intendere questa storia e lo Zen. Può darsi che pensiate che, sedendo in zazen, scoprirete se siete tra i migliori cavalli o tra i peggiori. Qui, tuttavia, ci troviamo di fronte a un fraintendimento dello Zen. Se pensate che scopo della pratica zen sia addestrarvi a diventare uno dei cavalli migliori, allora avrete veramente un grosso problema. Ma non è questo il retto intendimento. Se praticate lo Zen nel modo giusto non ha alcuna importanza che voi siate il cavallo migliore o peggiore. Se considerate la misericordia del Buddha, quale pensate sia l'atteggiamento del suo cuore nei confronti dei quattro tipi di cavalli? Egli avrà più simpatia per i peggiori che non per i migliori. Quando siete decisi a praticare lo zazen con la grande mente di Buddha, scoprirete che il cavallo peggiore è quello che vale di più. Proprio nelle vostre imperfezioni troverete la base per la vostra mente ferma, la mente che cerca la via.”

Origine: Mente Zen, Mente di principiante, pp. 33-34

“Quando si fa qualcosa, bisogna bruciare completamente come un buon falò, senza lasciare traccia di sé.”

Origine: Mente Zen, Mente di principiante, p. 52

“Nella mente di principiante ci sono molte possibilità, in quella da esperto poche.”

Origine: Mente Zen, Mente di principiante, p. 19

Frasi sulla vita di Shunryū Suzuki

“Attimo per attimo ognuno scaturisce dal nulla. Ecco la vera gioia della vita.”

Origine: Mente Zen, Mente di principiante, p. 88

Shunryū Suzuki Frasi e Citazioni

“Ciò che chiamiamo "io" è soltanto una porta che si apre e si chiude quando inspiriamo ed espiriamo.”

Origine: Mente Zen, Mente di principiante, p. 26

“Per gli studenti zen l'erbaccia è un tesoro.”

Origine: Mente Zen, Mente di principiante, p. 99

“È la saggezza che va in cerca della saggezza.”

Origine: Mente Zen, Mente di principiante, p. 17

Shunryū Suzuki: Frasi in inglese

“Communication is — start by understanding — your own understanding about people. Even though you want them to understand you, you know, it is — unless you understand people, it is almost impossible.”

Sun-Faced Buddha, Moon-Faced Buddha lecture at the Zen Mountain Center (17 August 1971) http://suzukiroshi.sfzc.org/archives/index.cgi/710817V.html
Contesto: Communication is — start by understanding — your own understanding about people. Even though you want them to understand you, you know, it is — unless you understand people, it is almost impossible. Don't you think so? Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there is some communication.

“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few.”

Prologue
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1973)
Variante: In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few
Origine: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“When you start to do this kind of thing you are alright. Don’t worry a bit. It means when you become you, yourself, and when you see things as they are, and when you become at one with your surrounding, in its true sense, there is true self.”

Lecture in Los Altos, CA (1 September 1967)
Contesto: So I say, ‘Oh, I am sorry but soon you will see the bright sunrise every morning and beautiful sunset in the evening, every evening, but right now perhaps you…under your situation it may be impossible to see the beautiful sunset or bright sunrise, or beautiful flower in your garden, and it is impossible to take care of your garden, but soon you will see the beauty of the flowers and you will cut some flowers for your room.’ When you start to do this kind of thing you are alright. Don’t worry a bit. It means when you become you, yourself, and when you see things as they are, and when you become at one with your surrounding, in its true sense, there is true self.

“You may say you attained some stage in your practice. But that is just a trivial event in your long life.”

"Three Lecture Excerpts from Shunryu Suzuki Roshi" http://www.berkeleyzencenter.org/Lectures/may2000.shtml in Newsletter (May 2000)
Contesto: You may say you attained some stage in your practice. But that is just a trivial event in your long life. It is like saying the ocean is round, or like a jewel, or palace. For a hungry ghost the ocean is a pool of blood; for a dragon the ocean is a palace; for a fish it is his house; for a human being it is water. There must be various understandings. When the ocean is a palace, it is a palace. You cannot say it is not a palace. For a dragon it is actually a palace. If you laugh at a fish who says it is a palace, Buddha will laugh at you who say it is two o'clock, three o'clock. It is the same thing.

“But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.”

Lecture in Los Altos, CA (1 September 1967)
Contesto: So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.

“What is true zazen? What do you mean by Zen becomes Zen and you become you? You become you is a very important point. You become you.”

Lecture in Los Altos, CA (1 September 1967) http://www.shunryusuzuki.com/suzuki/transcripts-pdf/67-pdf/67-08-31U.pdf
Contesto: What is true zazen? What do you mean by Zen becomes Zen and you become you? You become you is a very important point. You become you. When you become you, even though you are in bed, you may not be you most of the time. Even though you are sitting here, I wonder whether you are you in its true sense. So to be you is zazen.

“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.”

Origine: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"

Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.”

Origine: Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "ZEN Mind, Beginner's Mind"

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

Wherever You Are, Enlightenment Is There (page127)
Not Always So, practicing the true spirit of Zen (2002)

“What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.”

Origine: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.”

Origine: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“When something dies is the greatest teaching.”

Origine: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“To live is enough.”

Origine: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“Time goes from present to past.”

Origine: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.”

Shunryu Suzuki libro Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Pt. 3 : Right Understanding, "Naturalness"
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1973)

“There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.”

Quoted in Zen Millionaire : The Investor's Guide to the "Other Side" (2007) by Paul B. Farrell
Variante: Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

“The highest truth is daiji, translated as dai jiki in Chinese scriptures. This is the subject of the question the emperor asked Bodhidharma: "What is the First Principle?" Bodhidharma said, "I don't know."”

"I don't know" is the First Principle.
Lotus Sutra No. 6 lecture at the Zen Mountain Center (February 1968) http://www.cuke.com/Cucumber%20Project/lectures/transcripts-new-2012/srl-68-02-00F-f.html

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