From Dogen: “Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”
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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.”
Quote of the day 04/28/24
From Dogen: “If there were fish that would swim or birds that would fly only after investigating the entire ocean or sky, they would find neither path nor place.”
Quote of the day 04/27/24
From Dogen: “Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.”
Quote of the day 04/26/24
From Dogen: “If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.”
Quote of the day 04/25/24
From Dogen: “If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”
Quote of the day 01/16/24
From Shantideva: “All the happiness there is in this world comes from thinking about others, and all the suffering comes from preoccupation with yourself.”
Quote of the day 12/31/23
From Shantideva: “How wonderful will it be when all beings experience each other as limbs on the one body of life.”
Quote of the day 11/13/23
From Shantideva: “If there is a remedy, then what is the use of frustration? If there is no remedy, then what is the use of frustration?”
Quote of the day 08/21/23
From the Buddha: “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”