A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
DOGENBut do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
More Dogen Quotes
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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.
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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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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 paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.
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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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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.
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Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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