Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
DOGENYour 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.
More Dogen Quotes
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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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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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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 doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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Realization doesn’t destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.
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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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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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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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A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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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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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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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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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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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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