A Quote by Shunryu Suzuki-roshi on beginners mind and shoshin

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

Shunryu Suzuki-roshi : Japanese Buddhist scholar & Zen master, founder of the San Francisco Zen Center
Shunryu Suzuki-roshi (1905 - 1971)
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