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
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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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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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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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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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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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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