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.
DOGENA flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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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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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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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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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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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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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
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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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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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