Quotes of Dogen - somelinesforyou

“ Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment. ”

- Dogen

“ I live by letting things happen. ”

- Dogen

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

- Dogen

“ When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it. ”

- Dogen

“ Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment. ”

- Dogen

“ Body and mind dropped off. ”

- Dogen

“ Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way. ”

- Dogen

“ Enlightenment is intimacy with all things. ”

- Dogen

“ A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake. ”

- Dogen

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

- Dogen

“ The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ”

- Dogen

“ Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech. ”

- Dogen

“ A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself. ”

- Dogen

“ One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world. ”

- Dogen

“ Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools. ”

- Dogen

“ To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections. ”

- Dogen

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

- Dogen

“ To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world. ”

- Dogen

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

- Dogen

“ There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice. ”

- Dogen

“ Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them. ”

- Dogen

“ The color of the mountains is Buddha’s body; the sound of running water is his great speech. ”

- Dogen

“ Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment. ”

- Dogen

“ If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ”

- Dogen

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

- Dogen

“ A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it. ”

- Dogen

“ Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof. ”

- Dogen Zenji

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

- Dogen

“ If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Thanks to Josette Champagne. - Dogen. ”

- Dogen

“ If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Thanks to Josette Champagne. - Dogen. ”

- Dogen
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