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.”
Tag Archives: life
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.”
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 04/24/24
From William Faulkner: “It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.”
Quote of the day 04/23/24
From William Faulkner: “Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.”
Quote of the day 04/22/24
From William Faulkner: “Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.”
Quote of the day 04/20/24
From William Faulkner: “Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
Quote of the day 04/19/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.”