There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
DOGENIn a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.
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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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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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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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Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
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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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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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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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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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