Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
DOGENTruth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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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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Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.
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Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
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If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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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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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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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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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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