A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
DOGENA zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
More Dogen Quotes
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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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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If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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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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Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation – this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.
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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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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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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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Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.
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Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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