From Dogen: “Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them.”
Author Archives: Kevin Warstadt
05/06/24
From Dogen: “Beings, things, and events do not exist in time: beings, things, and events are times.”
Quote of the day 05/05/24
From Dogen: “Each moment is all being, each moment is the entire world. Reflect now whether any being or any world is left out of the present moment.”
Quote of the day 05/04/24
From Kurt Vonnegut: “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
Waiting
I find there to be a kind of liberty in waiting. To be imprisoned in time. Finally an excuse for inaction.
Quote of the day 05/03/24
From Dogen: “So our practice is not to eliminate our delusion, but to see or to become aware of the fact that we are deluded. Just become aware of it and let go of it. Do not be pulled by the delusions.”
Quote of the day 05/02/24
From Dogen: “Uchiyama Rōshi used to say again and again that loss is enlightenment, gain is illusion.”
Quote of the day 05/01/24
From Dogen: “Forgetting oneself is opening oneself.”
Quote of the day 04/30/24
From Dogen: “Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”
Quote of the day 04/29/24
From Dogen: “As long as there is a hope or expectation of some result to be derived from zazen, then zazen is tainted.”
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