168 Quotes by Dōgen

You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.

What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.

If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.

Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.

Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?

I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is hidden."

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

Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold