When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
DOGENEnlightenment is intimacy with all things.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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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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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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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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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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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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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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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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