When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
DOGENWhy abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
More Dogen Quotes
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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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The true person is Not anyone in particular; But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.
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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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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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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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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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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.
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If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
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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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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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Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
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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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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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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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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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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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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
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Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.
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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.
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But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
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