Dogen Quotes
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Dogen Quotes & Sayings
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Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them.
— Dogen
Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.
— Dogen
When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
— Dogen
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.
— Dogen
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
— Dogen
Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
— Dogen
If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
— Dogen
Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.
— Dogen
Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.
— Dogen
If you study a lot because you are worried that others will think badly of you for being ignorant and you'll feel stupid, this is a serious mistake.
— Dogen
Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field.
— Dogen
What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
— Dogen
Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.
— Dogen
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.
— Dogen
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
— 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
To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
— Dogen
There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
— Dogen
Each moment is all being, each moment is the entire world. Reflect now whether any being or any world is left out of the present moment.
— Dogen
To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.
— Dogen
In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.
— Dogen
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
— 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
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
— Dogen
There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
— Dogen
There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
— 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
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
— Dogen
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
— Dogen
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
— Dogen
184. "Focus your mind on one thing, absorb the old examples, study the actions of the masters- penetrate deeply into a single form of practice." ~
— Dogen
Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.
— Dogen
It's too late to be ready.
— Dogen