We must always be disturbed by the truth.
DOGENTo escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
More Dogen Quotes
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Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.
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Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.
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Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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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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The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
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Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.
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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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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.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it’s the universe that’s breathing.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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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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