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.
DOGENSitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
More Dogen Quotes
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Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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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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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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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.
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Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.
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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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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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That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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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.
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That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
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There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it’s the universe that’s breathing.
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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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I asked, “What are words?” The tenzo said, “One, two, three, four, five.” I asked again, “What is practice?” “Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.”
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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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