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...
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
beautiful mean goal
Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.
eye dust dharma
Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.
practice fundamentals where-you-are
When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.
poverty firsts speak
When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.
believe sage may
Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that , in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.
spring peaches apricots
When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.
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.
people desire doe
Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.
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.
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.
practice training firsts
The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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.