We must always be disturbed by the truth.
DOGENDo not be amazed by the true dragon.
More Dogen Quotes
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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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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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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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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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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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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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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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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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Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
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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 you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.
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There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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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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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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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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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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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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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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People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
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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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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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