A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
DOGENTime is three eyes and eight elbows.
More Dogen Quotes
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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
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Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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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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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation – this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.
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Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.
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Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
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Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
DOGEN