I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
DOGENAlthough its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.
More Dogen Quotes
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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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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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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I asked, “What are words?” The tenzo said, “One, two, three, four, five.” I asked again, “What is practice?” “Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.”
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Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation – this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.
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The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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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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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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