Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
DOGENAn ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation – this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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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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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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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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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
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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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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it’s the universe that’s breathing.
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If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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