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Dogen
Age: 53 †
Born: 1200
Born: January 19
Died: 1253
Died: September 29
Bhikkhu
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
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More quotes by Dogen
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
Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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
Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
Dogen
In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
Dogen
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
Dogen
In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
Dogen
To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.
Dogen
Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth sun, moon, and stars.
Dogen
Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
Dogen
To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
Dogen
There are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth.
Dogen
In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.
Dogen
In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.
Dogen
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
Dogen
I asked, What are words? The tenzo said, One, two, three, four, five. I asked again, What is practice? Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
Dogen
People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.
Dogen
Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.
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
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
