Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
DOGEN
A 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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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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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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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.
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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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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 seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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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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You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.
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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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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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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
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