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.
DOGENIf you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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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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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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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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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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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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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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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 we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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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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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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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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