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.
DOGENSomething 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.
More Dogen Quotes
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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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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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When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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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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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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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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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
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There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
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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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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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If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
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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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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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