What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
DOGENDo not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
More Dogen Quotes
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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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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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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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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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But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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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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