Skip to content

All things Quote by Dogen

“When both body and mind are at peace, all things…” quote by Dogen — Download Open image

“When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings)

All things Body Body And Mind Lacking Mind Mind and body Peace Perfect Psychology

More by Dogen

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

Image

When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass,…

Image

Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

Image

Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them,…

Image

Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious…

Image

Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field.

Image

Continuous practice, day after day, is the most appropriate way of expressing gratitude. This means that you practice continuously, without wasting a single day…

Image

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…

Image

“If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”

Image

Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect…

Image

“If you attain unsurpassable, complete enlightenment, all sentient beings also attain it. The reason is that all sentient beings are aspects of enlightenment.”

Image

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

Image

Explore all 143 Dogen quotes

More All things quotes

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Image

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that…

Image

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this…

Image

Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in…

Image

Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

Barbara Bretton

Image

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

Image

What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of…

Jean de la Bruyere

Image

When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of…

Image

It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become…

Image

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

Image

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows…

Francois Rabelais

Image

Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile,…

Margaret D. Nadauld

Image

Browse all 2,486 All things quotes