Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.
DOGENThe whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
More Dogen Quotes
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Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
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Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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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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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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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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If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
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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.
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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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