If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it? Dogen More Quotes by Dogen More Quotes From Dogen Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way. Dogen short-life dew discipline I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen. Dogen letting-things-happen buddhism live-by Look for Buddha outside your own mind, Dogen devil mind looks When you walk in the mist, you get wet. Dogen mist wet walks To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things. Dogen earth self religion Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming. Dogen blossoming emptiness grass When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. Dogen inspirational-life discovery war 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 enlightenment realization practice When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine myriad things with a confused body and mind you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self. Dogen confused eye moving Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious endeavour. It is not introspection. Do not desire to become a buddha; let sitting or lying down drop away. Be moderate in eating and drinking. Be mindful of the passing of time, and engage yourself in zazen as though you are saving your head from fire. Dogen drinking lying thinking To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. Dogen study self way 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 land eye home What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good. Dogen mind people thinking Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest. Dogen light self mind The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice. Dogen training practice firsts Do not be amazed by the true dragon. Dogen amazed dragons reality There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way. Dogen mountain flower water Forgetting oneself is opening oneself Dogen opening oneself forget Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire. Dogen passing saving fire The true person is Dogen color sky blue
