Purpose

To concentrate your mind on something is not the true purpose of zen. The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

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Few possibilities

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

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