In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.
DOGENEmptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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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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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.
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There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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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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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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