Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.
Dogen
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Dogen
Age: 53 †
Born: 1200
Born: January 19
Died: 1253
Died: September 29
Bhikkhu
Leader
Philosopher
Teacher
Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
Dougen
Relaxation
Bill
Dewdrops
Bills
Liken
Shall
Crane
World
Cranes
Shaken
Moonlight
Reflected
More quotes by Dogen
Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
Dogen
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
Dogen
Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains
Dogen
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.
Dogen
An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains they mean mountains are mountains.
Dogen
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.
Dogen
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
Dogen
Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.
Dogen
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.
Dogen
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
Dogen
People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
Dogen
One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
Dogen
All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.
Dogen
Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
Dogen
Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
Dogen
Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
Dogen
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
Dogen
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.
Dogen
To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
Dogen
Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
Dogen
