If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.
DOGENBe moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.
More Dogen Quotes
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.
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Learn 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.
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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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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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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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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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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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