In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
DOGENIn the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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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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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
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An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
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If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.
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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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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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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
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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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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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