Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
DOGENThere are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
More Dogen Quotes
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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.
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Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
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What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.
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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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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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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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To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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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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Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
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To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.
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