If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
DOGENIn 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.
More Dogen Quotes
-
-
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
DOGEN -
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
DOGEN -
To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
DOGEN -
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
DOGEN -
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.
DOGEN -
To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
DOGEN -
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.
DOGEN -
IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
DOGEN -
Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
DOGEN -
If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.
DOGEN -
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
DOGEN -
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
DOGEN -
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.
DOGEN -
Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
DOGEN -
There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
DOGEN