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.
DOGENDo not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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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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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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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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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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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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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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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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