To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
DOGENThose who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
More Dogen Quotes
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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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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When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
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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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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
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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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