Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.
DOGENThose who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
More Dogen Quotes
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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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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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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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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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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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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it’s the universe that’s breathing.
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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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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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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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