Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
DOGEN
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.
More Dogen Quotes
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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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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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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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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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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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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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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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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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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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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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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.
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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