There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
DOGENThere is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
More Dogen Quotes
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Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.
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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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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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If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
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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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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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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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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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The true person is Not anyone in particular; But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.
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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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There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
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People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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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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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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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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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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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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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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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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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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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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