Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
DOGENWhen you walk in the mist, you get wet.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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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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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.
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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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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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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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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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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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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
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IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
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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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Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.
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To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
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You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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