If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
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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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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An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
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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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There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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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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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
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What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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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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Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
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