When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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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If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.
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Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.
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Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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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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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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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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To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
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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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There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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