"Zen activity is activity which is completely burned out, with nothing remaining but ashes. This is the goal of our practice. That is what Dogen mean… - Shunryu Suzuki

This is the mystery. When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything. So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others, and you will be helped by others. Before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your mind, let it come in, and let it go out. It will not stay long. When you try to stop your thinking, it means you are bothered by it. Do not be bothered by anything.

Hace medio siglo, sin ayuda alguna, Daisetz Suzuki trajo el Zen a Occidente, dando con ello un paso que ha sido comparado, por su importancia histórica, con las traducciones al latín de las obras de Aristóteles en el siglo XIII, y de las de Platón en el XV.