No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.
DOGENThose who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
More Dogen Quotes
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If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
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Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.
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In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
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People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
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You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.
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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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