When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
DOGENRefraining 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.
More Dogen Quotes
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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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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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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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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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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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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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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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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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
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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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An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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Realization doesn’t destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.
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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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A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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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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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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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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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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