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From Quotes by Dogen
- If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
- To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
- To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
- There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward…
- 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.…
- Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the…
- Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
- Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.
- Be mindful of the passing of time, and engage yourself in zazen as though you are saving your head from fire.
- 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…
- 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…
- Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
- 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…
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