If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
DOGEN
When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
More Dogen Quotes
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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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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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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Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.
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That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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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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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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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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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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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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To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
DOGEN