Dogen Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

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

  Dogen

  Weed, Buddhist, War

• 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.

  Dogen

  Dream, Spring, Flower

• There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.

  Dogen

  Flower, Water, Mountain

  Dogen (2004). “Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

• Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

  Dogen

  Weed, Spring, Flower

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