Continuous practice, day after day, is the most appropriate way of expressing gratitude. This means that you practice continuously, without wasting a single day of your life, without using it for your own sake. Why is it so? Your life is a fortunate outcome of the continuous practice of the past. You should express your gratitude immediately.
Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gainin… - Dogen
Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gainin…
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. - Dogen
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way. - Dogen
Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enl… - Dogen
Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enl…
A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself. - Dogen
A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. - Dogen
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do n… - Dogen
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do n…
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. - Dogen
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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