No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.
DOGENIn the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
More Dogen Quotes
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Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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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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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.
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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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