Dogen Quotes - Page 3

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• Do no harmful actions, do not become attached to the cycle of death and rebirth, show kindness, respect the old and have compassion for the young, do not have a heart that rejects or a heart that covets and have no worry or sadness in your heart. This is what is called enlightenment. Do not seek it elsewhere.

  Dogen

  Kindness, Heart, Sadness

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• If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.

  Dogen

  Spiritual, Care, Want

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

  Dogen

  Children, Parent, Mind

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• IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND.
  THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.

  Dogen

  Exercise, Greed, Would Be

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• To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

  Dogen

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Study

  "Exploring the Inner World : A Guidebook for Personal Growth and Renewal". Book by Tolbert McCarroll, 1974.

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• Time is three eyes and eight elbows.

  Dogen

  Eye, Eight, Three

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• When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.

  Dogen

  Firsts, Oneself

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• If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?

  Dogen

  Buddhist, Zen Proverb, Ifs

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• 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.

  Dogen

  Life, Moon, Light

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• Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.

  Dogen

  Universe

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• Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.

  Dogen

  Beautiful, Mean, Goal

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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• What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.

  Dogen

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.

  Dogen

  Understanding, Mountain

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• Look for Buddha outside your own mind,
  and Buddha becomes the devil.

  Dogen

  Mind, Devil, Looks

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• Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.

  Dogen

  Blossoming, Emptiness, Grass

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• Forgetting oneself is opening oneself

  Dogen

  Forget, Opening, Oneself

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• Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.

  Dogen

  Morning, Lightning, Dew

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• I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is hidden."

  Dogen

  Practice, Two, Cooking

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• People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.

  Dogen

  Buddhist, People, Way

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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• When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine myriad things with a confused body and mind you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self.

  Dogen

  Confused, Moving, Eye

  "Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries".

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• When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.

  Dogen

  Spring, Plums, Peaches

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• Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

  Dogen

  Practice, Water, Hot

  Dogen (2004). “Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation”, p.62, Shambhala Publications

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• Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.

  Dogen

  Compassion, Evil, Worry

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• Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious endeavour. It is not introspection. Do not desire to become a buddha; let sitting or lying down drop away. Be moderate in eating and drinking. Be mindful of the passing of time, and engage yourself in zazen as though you are saving your head from fire.

  Dogen

  Lying, Drinking, Thinking

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• 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.

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