Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
DOGENThose 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.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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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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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 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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Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
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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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I asked, “What are words?” The tenzo said, “One, two, three, four, five.” I asked again, “What is practice?” “Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.”
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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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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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A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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