Dogen
Dogen
Dōgen Zenji, also known as Dōgen Kigen, Eihei Dōgen, Koso Joyo Daishi, or Bussho Dento Kokushi, was a Japanese Buddhist priest, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. Originally ordained as a monk in the Tendai School in Kyoto, he was ultimately dissatisfied with its teaching and traveled to China to seek out what he believed to be a more authentic Buddhism. He remained there for five years, finally training under Tiantong Rujing, an...
buddhist waves-breaking light
In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
oneness meditation enlightenment
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
war self truth-is
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
buddhist zen-proverb ifs
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
war thinking enlightenment
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
forget opening oneself
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
practice want ifs
If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
people
People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.
self mind realization
To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of realization remains, and this no trace continues endlessly.
spring lying eye
All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.
reflection past rushing
In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
buddhist people way
People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
truth meditation simplicity
There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
cake rocks blue
When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.