Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
DOGENThere is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
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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Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to 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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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.
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There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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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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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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If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
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Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
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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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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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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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