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...
gratitude mean past
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.
weed spring flower
Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.
mountain world earth
Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.
earth study forget
To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
practice enlightenment realization
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.
practice training firsts
The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
self world way
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.
self enlightenment delusion
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.
buddhism sea keys
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.
spring peaches apricots
When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.
poverty firsts speak
When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.
practice fundamentals where-you-are
When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.
eye dust dharma
Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.
practice water realization
Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold