When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
DOGENPractice and enlightenment are not two.
More Dogen Quotes
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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
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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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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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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.
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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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The true person is Not anyone in particular; But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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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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People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
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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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