Dogen Quotes About Spirituality

Quotes about: Spirituality

• You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

  Dogen

  Mother, Spiritual, Buddhist

• Through one word, or seven words, or three times five, even if you investigate thoroughly myriad forms, nothing can be depended upon. Night advances, the moon glows and falls into the ocean. The black dragon jewel you have been searching for, is everywhere.

  Dogen

  Ocean, Fall, Moon

• Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

  Dogen

  Buddhist, Compassion, Enlightenment

• 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

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

  Dogen

  Spiritual, Self, Enlightenment

• In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this is what awakening the mind for enlightenment is like. The fifth patriarch of Zen was once a pine-planting wayfarer; Rinzai worked on planting cedars and pines on Mount Obaku. . . . Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

  Dogen

  Wall, Heart, Practice

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

  Dogen

  Weed, Spring, Flower

• 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

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