IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
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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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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If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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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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I asked, “What are words?” The tenzo said, “One, two, three, four, five.” I asked again, “What is practice?” “Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.”
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Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from 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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Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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Realization doesn’t destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.
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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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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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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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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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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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