To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
DOGENWhen one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
More Dogen Quotes
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A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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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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The true person is Not anyone in particular; But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.
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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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Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
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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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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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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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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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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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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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