If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
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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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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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.
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Realization doesn’t destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.
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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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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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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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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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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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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
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Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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