Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.
DOGENTo study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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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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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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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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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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Realization doesn’t destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.
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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
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