Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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
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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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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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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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Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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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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Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
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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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A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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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 cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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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.
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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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