A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
DOGENDo not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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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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Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
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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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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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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
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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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But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
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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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
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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 seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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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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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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