A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
DOGENWhat is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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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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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true 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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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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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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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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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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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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Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
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When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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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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