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.
DOGENTo study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
More Dogen Quotes
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
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Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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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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An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
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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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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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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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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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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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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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