Zen Is Right Here Quotes

“A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"

Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "ZEN Mind, Beginner's Mind"

“student remembers a lecture where Suzuki Roshi said, “If it’s not paradoxical, it’s not true.”
― David Chadwick, Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki