Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

If you are too demanding or too greedy, your mind is not rich and self-sufficient.

If we lose our original self-sufficient mind we will lose all precepts.

When your mind becomes demanding when you long for something you will end up violating your own precepts.

Not to tell lies not to steal not to kill

not to be immoral, and so forth.

If you keep your original mind, the precepts will keep themselves.

In the beginner's mind, there is no thought.

I have attained something.

All self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind.

When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners.

Then we can really learn something.

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion.

When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

Dogen Zenji always emphasized how important it is to resume our boundless, original mind.

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.

Even though you read much Zen literature,

You must read each sentence with a fresh mind.

Be very, very careful about this point.

If you start to practice Sa Zen, you will begin to appreciate your beginner's mind.

When you become one with Buddha, one with everything that exists, you find the true meaning of being.