7/21/2023 0 Comments Soto zen quotes on mind![]() ![]() His father's temple, Shōgan-ji, was located near Hiratsuka, a city on Sagami Bay about fifty miles southwest of Tokyo. As an adult he was about 4 feet 11 inches (1.5 m) tall. Shunryu grew up with an older half-brother from his mother's first marriage and two younger sisters. His mother, Yone, was the daughter of a priest and had been divorced from her first husband for being too independent. His father, Butsumon Sogaku Suzuki, was the abbot of the village Soto Zen temple. Shunryu Suzuki was born May 18, 1904, in Kanagawa Prefecture southwest of Tokyo, Japan. A book of his teachings, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, is one of the most popular books on Zen and Buddhism in the West. Suzuki founded San Francisco Zen Center which, along with its affiliate temples, comprises one of the most influential Zen organizations in the United States. But we've learned to define ourselves as separate from it.Shunryu Suzuki (鈴木 俊隆 Suzuki Shunryū, dharma name Shōgaku Shunryū 祥岳俊隆, often called Suzuki Roshi – December 4, 1971) was a Sōtō Zen monk and teacher who helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States, and is renowned for founding the first Zen Buddhist monastery outside Asia ( Tassajara Zen Mountain Center). ![]() When I meet you, I see not just what you define yourself as-Mr so-and- so, Ms so-and-so, Mrs so-and-so-I see every one of you as the primordial energy of the universe coming on at me in this particular way. ![]() ![]() You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are actually-if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in the beginning- you're not something that's a result of the big bang. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. But so we define ourselves as being only that. We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. And you and I, sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out on the fringe of that bang. And in the middle, it's dense, isn't it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see? So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread. “It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.” Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.Īnd this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. “I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. ![]()
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