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.
DOGENThat 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.
More Dogen Quotes
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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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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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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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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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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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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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