If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.
DOGENDo not be amazed by the true dragon.
More Dogen Quotes
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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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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In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.
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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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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it’s the universe that’s breathing.
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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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Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.
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