The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. Dogen More Quotes by Dogen More Quotes From 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 mountainoceanwater Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field. Dogen scarecrowfieldswatches To what shall Dogen billsrelaxationworld Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people. Dogen doedesirepeople When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty. Dogen povertyspeakfirsts Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this. Dogen excellencepracticeself Do not practice buddha-dharma with the thought that it is to benefit others. Dogen dharmabenefitspractice What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world. Dogen selfwayworld If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil. Dogen devilawarenessmind 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 formearthgrass In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this is what awakening the mind for enlightenment is like. The fifth patriarch of Zen was once a pine-planting wayfarer; Rinzai worked on planting cedars and pines on Mount Obaku. . . . Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. Dogen wallpracticeheart Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves. Dogen buddha-natureevery-manmen When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas. Dogen twowayreligion That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment. Dogen delusionenlightenmentself Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust. Dogen dharmadusteye 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. Dogen peachesplumsspring 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 mountaincloudswind Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of Buddhism. The key to this is to renounce both body and mind without holding anything back and to offer them to the great sea of Buddhism. Dogen buddhismkeyssea Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world. Dogen buddhismstudyworld If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it? Dogen findyourselfyoutruth
