If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
DOGENLook for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
More Dogen Quotes
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.
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Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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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 stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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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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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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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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