Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Zitate

“Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.”

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D.T. Suzuki

“Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?”

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D.T. Suzuki

Quelle: Zen and Japanese Culture

“The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.”

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D.T. Suzuki

“Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.”

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D.T. Suzuki

As quoted in Root (2001)