To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
DOGENDo not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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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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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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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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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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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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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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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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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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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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When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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