Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
DOGENDo not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.
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That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
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In 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.
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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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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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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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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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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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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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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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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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