"Buddhists have conceived an object as an event and not as a thing or substance [...] The Buddhist conception of ‘things’ as samskara (or sankhara), that is, as ‘deeds’, or ‘events’, makes it clear that Buddhists understand our experience in terms of time and movement." (Daisetzu T Suzuki , "The Essence of Buddhism", 1947)
"The central idea of Kegon is to grasp the universe dynamically whose characteristic is always to move onward, to be forever in the mood of moving, which is life." (Daisetzu T Suzuki, "The Essence of Buddhism", 1947)
"The fundamental idea of Buddhism is to pass beyond the world of opposites, a world built up by intellectual distinctions and emotional defilements, and to realize the spiritual world of non-distinction, which involves achieving an absolute point of view."(Daisetzu T Suzuki, "The Essence of Buddhism", 1947)
"When the one is set against all the others, the one is seen as pervading them all and at the same time embracing them all in itself.” (Daisetzu T Suzuki, "The Essence of Buddhism")
"The discipline of Zen consists in opening the mental eye in order to look into the very reason of existence." (Daisetzu T Suzuki, "An Introduction to Zen Buddhism", 1964)
"In this spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense [...] The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on." (Daisetzu T Suzuki, "On Indian Mahayana Buddhism", 1968)
"Clinging is never kept within bounds,
It is sure to go the wrong way; Quit it and things follow their own courses,
While the Essence neither departs or abides." (Daisetzu T Suzuki)
"Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious." (Daisetzu T Suzuki)
"The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him." (Daisetzu T Suzuki)
"The seeing plays the most important role in Buddhist epistemology, for seeing is at the basis of knowing. Knowing is impossible without seeing; all knowledge has its origin in seeing. Knowing and seeing are thus found generally united in Buddha’s teaching. Buddhist philosophy therefore ultimately points to seeing reality as it is. Seeing is experiencing enlightenment." (Daisetzu T Suzuki)
"The significance of the Avatamsaka and its philosophy is unintelligible unless we once experience [...] a state of complete dissolution where there is no more distinction between mind and body, subject and object [...] We look around and perceive that [...] every object is related to every other object [...] not only spatially, but temporally. [...] As a fact of pure experience, there is no space without time, no time without space; they are interpenetrating." (Daisetzu T Suzuki)
"There is harmony in our activity, and where there is harmony there is calmness." (Daisetzu T Suzuki)
"When there is no crookedness in one's heart, we say that one is natural and childlike." (Daisetzu T Suzuki)
"Zen is discipline in enlightenment" (Daisetzu T Suzuki)
"Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one's own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism. Zen, therefore, is more than meditation and Dhyana in its ordinary sense. The discipline of Zen consists in opening the mental eye in order to look into the very reason of existence." (Daisetsu T Suzuki)
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