Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
DOGENPeople like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
More Dogen Quotes
-
-
People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
DOGEN -
If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.
DOGEN -
To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
DOGEN -
Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
DOGEN -
A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
DOGEN -
Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
DOGEN -
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.
DOGEN -
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
DOGEN -
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
DOGEN -
There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
DOGEN -
When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
DOGEN -
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
DOGEN -
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
DOGEN -
What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
DOGEN -
A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
DOGEN