In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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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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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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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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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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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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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No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.
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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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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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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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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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That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
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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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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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