"When you paint Spring, do not paint willows,……" — Dogen
"When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring."
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83 Quotes by Dogen
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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 Apricots Quotes
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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot…
— Cecil Beaton
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I love, love, love apricot baby food. My closet in the kitchen is filled with jars of it. I love…
— Alicia Silverstone
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums,…
— Dogen
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Orange strengthens your emotional body, encouraging a general feeling of joy, well-being, and cheerfulness. Orange vibration foods are: oranges, tangerines,…
— Tae Yun Kim
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A springlike autumn's balmy breeze reaches afar. The sun shines on the house of a recluse South of the river;…
— Sun Bu'er
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All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow…
— Henry Austin Dobson
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All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only…
— John Selden
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by…
— Ezra Pound
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Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.
— Frances Mayes
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At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste…
— Isabel Allende
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Girls get screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things.…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Elsa's joke Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots!
— Jacqueline Wilson
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