In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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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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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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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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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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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But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
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There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
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People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
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That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
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Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
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The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
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You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.
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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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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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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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