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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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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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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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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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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An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from 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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Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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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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