Dogen Quotes - Page 2

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• People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.

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  People

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• 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.

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  Self, Mind, Enlightenment

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• If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.

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  Discipline, Mind, Finding Peace

  "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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• No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.

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  Strong, Clouds, Wind

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• In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.

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  Sacred, Sacredness, Mundane

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• When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

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  War, Inspirational Life, Discovery

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• I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.

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  Buddhism, Live By, Letting Things Happen

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• Practice and enlightenment are not two.

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  Practice, Two, Enlightenment

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• Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.

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  Breathing, Individual, Activity

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• You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.

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  Light, Practice, Mind

  Dogen (2004). “Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

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  Want, Way, Expect Nothing

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• There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and kind to juniors, not excluding or desiring anything, with no designing thoughts or worries, you will be called a buddha. Do not seek anything else.

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  Senior, Simple, Worry

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• In the stream,
  Rushing past
  To the dusty world,
  My fleeting form
  Casts no reflection.

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  Reflection, Past, Rushing

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• Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.

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  Land, Sitting, Where You Are

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• Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

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  Responsibility, Thinking, Three

  "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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• When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.

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  Firsts, Oneself

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• What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.

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  Reality, Fire, Icicles

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• The true person is
  Not anyone in particular;
  But like the deep blue color
  Of the limitless sky,
  It is everyone,
  Everywhere in the world.

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  Blue, Color, Sky

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• Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.

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  Heart, Return

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• That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.

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  Self, Enlightenment, Delusion

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

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  Doubt, Mountain, May

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• There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.

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  Practice, Enlightenment, Ends

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• Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

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  Children, Parent, Mind

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• If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.

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  Spiritual, Care, Want

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• 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.

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  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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