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.
DOGENEnlightenment is intimacy with all things.
More Dogen Quotes
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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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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The true person is Not anyone in particular; But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.
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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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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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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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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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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
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I asked, “What are words?” The tenzo said, “One, two, three, four, five.” I asked again, “What is practice?” “Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.”
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