Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
DOGENStudents 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.
More Dogen Quotes
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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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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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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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.
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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
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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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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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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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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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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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