Dogen Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

  Dogen

  Self, Religion, Earth

• Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth; sun, moon, and stars.

  Dogen

  Stars, Moon, Rivers

• 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, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.

  Dogen

  Two, Religion, Way

• There are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth.

  Dogen

  Earth, Grass, Form

• Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.

  Dogen

  Expression, Rivers, Religion

• 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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