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Things Quotes by Dogen
- To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
- 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…
- When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely…
- 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…
- 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…
- To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
- Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious,…
- That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
- 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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