You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
DOGENPractice and enlightenment are not two.
More Dogen Quotes
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Realization doesn’t destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.
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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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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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