Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
DOGENTo start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
More Dogen Quotes
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Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.
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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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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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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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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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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 we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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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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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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People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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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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