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.
DOGENNothing in the entire universe is hidden.
More Dogen Quotes
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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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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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 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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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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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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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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A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Realization doesn’t destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.
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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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People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
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