Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.
DOGENA fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
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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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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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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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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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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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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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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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Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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