Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
DOGEN
I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
More Dogen Quotes
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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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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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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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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In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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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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Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
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Realization doesn’t destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.
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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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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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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
DOGEN