If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
DOGENThere 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?
More Dogen Quotes
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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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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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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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Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
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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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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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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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Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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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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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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