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.
DOGENSince it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
More Dogen Quotes
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Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation – this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.
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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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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
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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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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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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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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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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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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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Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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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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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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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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