Shunryu Suzuki Giving Quotations

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood

Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.