Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
DOGENOne must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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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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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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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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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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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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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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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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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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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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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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