That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
DOGENOne must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
More Dogen Quotes
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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
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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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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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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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You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.
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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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Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.
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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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Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
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The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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