If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.
DOGENYou 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.
More Dogen Quotes
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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.
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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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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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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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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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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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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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If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
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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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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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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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If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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