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...
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.
dragons tree doe
Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
buddhism world study
Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.
buddhist opportunity life-and-death
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 not squander your life.
awakening delusion
That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
buddhist buddhism study
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
buddhist moon mirrors
Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we grasp onto the physical forms we see. Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we cling to the sounds we hear. As a consequence, we make ourselves inseparable from all things, yet we are not like some shadowy figure 'lodging' in a mirror or like the moon in water. Whenever we witness what is on the one side, its opposite side will be in darkness.
blossoming emptiness grass
Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
buddhist everyday worldly-life
Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.
buddhism live-by letting-things-happen
I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
buddhist waves-breaking light
In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
buddhist people way
People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
drinking thinking ideas
In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.