Shunryu Suzuki Life Quotations

In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment.

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.