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Body Quotes by Dogen
- To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to…
- Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is…
- To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be…
- The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
- Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five clusters,…
- Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha…
- If we look at the world with a deluded body and mind, we will think that our self is permanent. But if we practice correctly…
- You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop…
- Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things…
- All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner…
- 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…
- Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you…
- Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we grasp onto the physical forms we see. Since we are provided with both…
More Body Quotes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly,… — Christian Bale
- A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his… — Clara Barton
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle