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.
DOGENNothing in the entire universe is hidden.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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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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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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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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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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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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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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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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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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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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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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