In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
DOGENWhen one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
More Dogen Quotes
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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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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Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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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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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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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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IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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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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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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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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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.
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