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.
DOGENComing, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
More Dogen Quotes
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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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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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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The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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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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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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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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To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
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Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.
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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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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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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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