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.
DOGENWhat you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
More Dogen Quotes
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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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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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Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.
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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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Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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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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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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That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
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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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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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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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