What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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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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That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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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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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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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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Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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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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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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That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
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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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