Dogen Quotes About Dharma

Quotes about: Dharma

• Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

  Dogen

  Practice, Distraction, Dharma

• 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. It is the manifestation of ultimate reality. Traps and snares can never reach it. Once its heart is grasped, you are like the dragon when he gains the water, like the tiger when she enters the mountain. For you must know that just there (in zazen) the right Dharma is manifesting itself and that, from the first, dullness and distraction are struck aside.

  Dogen

  Heart, Reality, Dragons

• Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.

  Dogen

  Buddhist, Everyday, Worldly Life

• Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.

  Dogen

  Eye, Dust, Dharma

• 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 meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.

  Dogen

  Lying, Spring, Eye

• As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by birth. If this is the case, why did the Buddhas of all ages - undoubtedly in possession of enlightenment - find it necessary to seek enlightenment and engage in spiritual practice?

  Dogen

  Spiritual, School, Buddhism

  "Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist". Book by Hee-jin Kim, 2004.

• Do not practice buddha-dharma with the thought that it is to benefit others.

  Dogen

  Practice, Benefits, Dharma

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