Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.
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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 escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
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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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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 self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
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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.
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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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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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