Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
DOGENForgetting oneself is opening oneself
More Dogen Quotes
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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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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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But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation – this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.
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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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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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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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What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.
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There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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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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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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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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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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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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