Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
DOGENIf you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
More Dogen Quotes
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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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Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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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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The true person is Not anyone in particular; But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.
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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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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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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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I asked, “What are words?” The tenzo said, “One, two, three, four, five.” I asked again, “What is practice?” “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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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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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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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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