"Although its light is wide and great, the……" — Dogen
"Although 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."
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83 Quotes by Dogen
Dogen has 83 quotes on this site.
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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet…
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Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive…
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by…
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If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that…
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If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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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…
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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
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More Dew Quotes
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I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
— Wendell Berry
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Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread…
— Geraldine Brooks
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
— Robert Browning
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
— Samuel Butler
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes…
— Lord Byron
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
— Lord Byron
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For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is…
— David Fairchild
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
— Lord Byron
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I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.
— William Shakespeare
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Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind…
— Robert Greene
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Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue....
— William C. Bryant
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