IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
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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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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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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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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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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That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation – this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.
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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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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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Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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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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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.
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