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.
DOGENCease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
More Dogen Quotes
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Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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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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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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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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That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
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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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I asked, “What are words?” The tenzo said, “One, two, three, four, five.” I asked again, “What is practice?” “Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.”
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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.
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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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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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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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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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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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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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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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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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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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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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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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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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