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Quotes about Beginners mind

If you want to enjoy the movie, you should know that it is the combination of film and light and white screen, and that the most important thing is to have a plain, white screen.

Shunryu Suzuki Roshi : Gaia Explorer
Shunryu Suzuki
Source: Our Everyday Life Is Like a Movie
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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)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunryu_Suzuki#Quotations
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