Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
DOGENThat you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
More Dogen Quotes
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.
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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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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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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.
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People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
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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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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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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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