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.
DOGENNo 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.
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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Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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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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Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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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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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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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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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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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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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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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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