Practice and enlightenment are not two.
DOGENSitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
More Dogen Quotes
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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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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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.
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