Dogen Quotes

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• 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 of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.

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  Oneness, Meditation, Enlightenment

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• If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

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  Spiritual, Art, Truth

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• To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.

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  Imperfection, Anxiety, Harmony

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• If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.

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  Practice, Want, Ifs

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• Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.

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  Life, Buddhist, Opportunity

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• Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

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  Buddhist, Compassion, Enlightenment

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

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  Perfect, Mind, Body

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• 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 will realize the unity of all things.

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  Ideas, Voice, Unity

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• Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but the mind. The bubbles of water and the flames of fire are nothing but the mind. The flowers of the spring and the moon of the autumn are nothing but the mind. Confusions and dangers are nothing but the mind.

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  Dream, Spring, Flower

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• But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.

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  Travel, Home, World

  "Zen Poetry of Dogen: Verses from the Mountain of Eternal Peace". Book by Dogen translated by Steven Heine, 1997.

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• A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

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  Weed, Buddhist, War

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• A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.

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  Wise, Men, Fool

  Dogen, Kosho Uchiyama Roshi (2005). “How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment”, p.135, Shambhala Publications

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• To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.

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  Spiritual, Self, Enlightenment

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

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  Moon, Sky, Relaxation

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• That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.

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  Self, Enlightenment, Delusion

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• 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 is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.

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  Self, Mind, Enlightenment

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

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  Children, Parent, Mind

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• 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 enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever

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  Self, Forever, Mind

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• Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

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  Way, Easy, Easy Way

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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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  War, Inspirational Life, Discovery

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• Continuous practice, day after day, is the most appropriate way of expressing gratitude. This means that you practice continuously, without wasting a single day of your life, without using it for your own sake. Why is it so? Your life is a fortunate outcome of the continuous practice of the past. You should express your gratitude immediately.

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  Gratitude, Mean, Past

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• If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

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  Want, Way, Expect Nothing

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• That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

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  Awakening, Delusion

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• In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.

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  Sacred, Sacredness, Mundane

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• Practice and enlightenment are not two.

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  Practice, Two, Enlightenment

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