Dogen Quotes About Mountain

Quotes about: Mountain

• Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.

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  Ocean, Water, Mountain

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

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  Flower, Water, Mountain

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

• 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.

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  Heart, Reality, Dragons

• Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.

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  Views, Mountain, Scales

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

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  Stars, Moon, Rivers

• Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains

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  Clouds, Wind, Mountain

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

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  Understanding, Mountain

• Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.

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  Doubt, Mountain, May

• The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

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  Inspirational, Life, Running

• Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.

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  Ocean, Opportunity, Roots

• 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.

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  Expression, Rivers, Religion

• When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.

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  Jewels, Cake, Rocks

• An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.

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  Mean, Water, Mountain

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