What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
DOGENTo study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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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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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
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Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.
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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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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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Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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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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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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