Tao Te Ching
Dōgen Zenji 道元禅師
1200 – 1253 CE
Illegitimate son of a Japanese noble, Dōgen became a famous poet, writer, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen. Dissatisfied with the spiritual materialism of Buddhist teaching and teachers in Japan, he traveled to China seeking a more authentic Way. After training there for many years he returned, taught a meditation practice called zazen, and wrote the first Japanese monastic code. His deep understanding and powerful use of language helped bring realization to many and continues today.
Eras
Chinese
5 Kingdom of Dali 大理国 (937 – 1253 CE)Southern Song (1127 – 1279 CE)
Jin dynasty (1115 – 1234 CE)
Western Xia 西夏 (1038 – 1227 CE)
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Quotes by Dōgen Zenji (19 quotes)
“Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever.”
Chapters:
27. No Trace
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“If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”
Chapters:
80. A Golden Age
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“The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.”
Chapters:
81. Journey Without Goal
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“There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.”
Chapters:
14. Finding and Following the Formless Form
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“To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others.”
Chapters:
49. No Set Mind
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“Truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, this is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.”
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41. Distilled Life
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“enlightenment after enlightenment with no trace of enlightenment”
Chapters:
27. No Trace
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“If you cannot find a true teacher, it is better not to practice.”
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“Charcoal does not become ashes... Everything is just a flashing into the vast phenomenal world.”
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“Although everything has Buddha nature, we love flowers, and we do not care for weeds.”
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“The best mental exercise for letting go of egotism is contemplating impermanence.”
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“I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.”
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“Only by accepting that the ego is a fabricated illusion do we walk the Buddha's Way.”
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“When you simply release and forget both your body and your mind and throw yourself into the house of Buddha, then—with no strength needed and no thought expended—freed from birth and death, you become Buddha.”
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“When one displays the Buddha mudra with one’s whole body and mind, sitting upright in this samadhi even for a short time, everything in the entire dharma world becomes buddha mudra, and all space in the universe completely becomes enlightenment.”
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“At this time, because earth, grasses and trees, fences and walls, tiles and pebbles, all things in the dharma realm in the universe in ten directions carry out buddha-work, therefore everyone receives the benefit of wind and water movement caused by this functioning, and all are imperceptibly helped by the wondrous and incomprehensible influence of buddha to actualize the enlightenment at hand.”
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