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.
DOGENLearn 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.
More Dogen Quotes
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Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.
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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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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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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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No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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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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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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