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Enlightenment Quotes by Dogen
- Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
- To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
- Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
- In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this…
- The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of totally culminated enlightenment.…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
- Do no harmful actions, do not become attached to the cycle of death and rebirth, show kindness, respect the old and have compassion for the…
- 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…
- 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…
- Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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