168 Quotes by Dōgen

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening.

I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.

The color of the mountains is Buddha’s body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it’s the universe that’s breathing.

People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.

All that’s visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.

Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains.

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.

Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it’s not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field.