The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
DOGENForgetting oneself is opening oneself
More Dogen Quotes
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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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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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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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That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
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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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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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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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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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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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