What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
DOGEN
Those 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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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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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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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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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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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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IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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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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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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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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When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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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.
DOGEN