When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
DOGENJust as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it’s the universe that’s breathing.
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The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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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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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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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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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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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 miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
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Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.
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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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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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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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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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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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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 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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Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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