If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
DOGENIf you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
More Dogen Quotes
-
-
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.
DOGEN -
People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
DOGEN -
I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
DOGEN -
Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.
DOGEN -
Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
DOGEN -
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
DOGEN -
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
DOGEN -
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.
DOGEN -
But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
DOGEN -
What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.
DOGEN -
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.
DOGEN -
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.
DOGEN -
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
DOGEN -
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
DOGEN -
When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
DOGEN