When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.
DOGENSince it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
More Dogen Quotes
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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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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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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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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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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
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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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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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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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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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