We must always be disturbed by the truth.
DOGENPractice and enlightenment are not two.
More Dogen Quotes
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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.
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What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
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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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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 cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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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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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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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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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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