Dōgen quotes - page 2

Forgetting oneself is opening oneself. (Dōgen)
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child. View quote
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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. View quote
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is not yet painting Spring. View quote
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In the great way of going beyond, no endeavor is complete without being one with myriad things. This is ocean mudra samadhi. View quote
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Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life. View quote
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To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world. View quote
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do not view mountains from the scale of human thought. View quote
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It is only due to a lack of heart for the Way and a lack of skill in handling their daily conduct that people become vainly tied to fame and gain. View quote
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Buddhas and Ancestors continuously maintain ocean mudra samadhi. While swimming in this samadhi, they expound, realize, practice. View quote
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Right and wrong are temporal, but time is neither right nor wrong. Right and wrong are the Dharma, but the Dharma is neither right nor wrong. In the balance of the Dharma, wrong is balanced. In the balance of the Dharma, right is balanced. And so, in learning of complete and utter Awakening, in hearing the Teachings, doing the training, and realizing the effect, this is profound, vast, and wonderful. Some hear of unsurpassed Awakening from good friends, and some hear of it from the sutras. What one hears first is, "Not doing wrong action." If one does not hear "not doing wrong action,” one is not hearing the Buddhas' true Dharma but demonic talk. Know that hearing "not doing wrong action” is hearing the Buddhas' true Dharma. (Dōgen)
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. View quote
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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment. View quote
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The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. View quote
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The primordial Buddhas are saying, : "Not doing wrong action, Sincerely doing every kind of good, naturally clarifies this mind. This is the Teaching of all the Buddhas." This is the universal precept of the Seven Buddhas, our Founding Ancestors, and is truly transmitted by earlier Buddhas to later Buddhas and is received by later Buddhas from earlier Buddhas. It is not only the Teaching of the Seven Buddhas but of all the Buddhas. This principle must be investigated and mastered through practice. View quote
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Do not be concerned with the faults of other persons. Do not see others' faults with a hateful mind. There is an old saying that if you stop seeing others' faults, then naturally seniors and venerated and juniors are revered. Do not imitate others' faults; just cultivate virtue. Buddha prohibited unwholesome actions, but did not tell us to hate those who practice unwholesome actions. View quote
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