Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken, take heed and not squander life.

- #Dōgen #Zen- ji

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following after speech, and learn the backwards step that turns your light inwardly.

- #Dōgen, ‘ #Fukanzazengi’

"If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?"

✒ #Dōgen, Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, poet, and philosopher, #DOTD 22 September 1253. #Philosophy

Whoever told people that ‘mind’ means thoughts, opinions, ideas, and concepts? Mind means trees and grasses.

- #Dōgen

"The entire universe in the ten directions is one bright pearl." In Ikka myōju, #Dōgen develops this image to illustrate the nondual nature of reality, where all phenomena are interconnected and mutually inclusive, challenging conventional distinctions […]

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The true person is
Not anyone in particular;
But like the deep blue color of the limitless sky,
It is everyone,
Everywhere in the world.

- #Dōgen Zenji