Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
DOGENWhen you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.
More Dogen Quotes
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No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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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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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
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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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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.
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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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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.
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
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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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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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If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.
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To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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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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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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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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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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