Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
DOGENIf you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
More Dogen Quotes
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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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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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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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Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
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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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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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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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Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
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What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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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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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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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.
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