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

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

- 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

Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

- Dogen

Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enl…

- Dogen

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.

- Dogen

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

- 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…

- Dogen

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

- Dogen