From Dogen: “No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.”
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Quote of the day 05/08/24
From Dogen: “Do not be concerned with the faults of other persons. Do not see others’ faults with a hateful mind. There is an old saying that if you stop seeing others’ faults, then naturally seniors and venerated and juniors are revered. Do not imitate others’ faults; just cultivate virtue. Buddha prohibited unwholesome actions, butContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/08/24”
Quote of the day 05/07/24
From Dogen: “Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them.”
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.”
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.”
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