That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
DOGENCease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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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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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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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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Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.
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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
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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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There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
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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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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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