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.”
DOGENComing, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
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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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When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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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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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.
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If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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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.
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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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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