To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
DOGENRefraining 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.
More Dogen Quotes
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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.
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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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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.
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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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Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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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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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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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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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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Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.
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That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
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A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.
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