The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
DOGENNothing in the entire universe is hidden.
More Dogen Quotes
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Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
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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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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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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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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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Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
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To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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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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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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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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