Dogen Quotes About Study

Quotes about: Study

• 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.

• 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

• To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of realization remains, and this no trace continues endlessly.

  Dogen

  Self, Mind, Realization

• Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.

  Dogen

  Self, Mind, 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

• Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.

  Dogen

  Short Life, Discipline, Dew

• To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

  Dogen

  Self, Way, Study

  Eihei Dogen (2013). “Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries”, p.55, Counterpoint

• What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.

  Dogen

  Self, World, Way

• To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever

  Dogen

  Self, Forever, Mind

• 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.

• Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of Buddhism. The key to this is to renounce both body and mind without holding anything back and to offer them to the great sea of Buddhism.

  Dogen

  Buddhism, Keys, Sea

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

• Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.

  Dogen

  Buddhism, World, Study

  "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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