Your weekly Dharma from The Essential Dogen.
This is from the chapter on Compassion in The Essential Dogen. I often need this advice. 😄
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"Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them."
– Dōgen
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"The most intimate thing we can do is to allow the world to live in us."
– Dōgen
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"#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."
– Dōgen
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"To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world."
– Dōgen
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The life of one day is enough to rejoice. Even though you live for just one day, if you can be awakened, that one day is vastly superior to one endless life of sleep. . . . If this day in the lifetime of a hundred years is lost, will you ever touch it with your hands again?
- #Dogen
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Your weekly Dharma from The Essential Dogen.
Dogen reminds us never to forget our Buddhist history and the efforts of prior Buddhas. Unlike most of the population we learn from the dharma of the past.
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"Treading along in this dreamlike, illusory realm, Without looking for the traces I may have left; A cuckoo's song beckons me to return home; Hearing this, I tilt my head to see Who has told me to turn back. But do not ask me where I am going,
As I travel in this limitless world,
Where every […]
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Your weekly Dharma from The Essential Dogen.
Prajna means transcendental wisdom, translated as wisdom beyond wisdom. An essential Mahayana Buddhist teaching it is the experience of emptiness or interconnectedness of all things.
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"In spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; in summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you."
– Dōgen
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Your weekly Dharma from The Essential Dogen.
This may seem contrary to what is often said, that all sentient beings have Buddha nature, but note the word "embodied" that Dogen uses.
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"Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately."
– Dōgen
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Quote Body like mountain. Heart like ocean. Mind like sky. Blue-green watercolour background with a black splotch in centre
Day 12 The 100 Day Project 2026
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Your weekly Dharma from The Essential Dogen.
Dogen believed that there was a circle of aspiration, practice, enlightenment, and nirvana. Becoming enlightened did not negate the need to practice.
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"The whole world is a single flower; each and every phenomenon is a blossom from that flower."
– Dōgen
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Your weekly Dharma from The Essential Dogen.
This is an interesting quote from the chapter on enlightenment. Is there a state of being beyond enlightenment?
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"A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it."
– Dōgen
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"Looking deeply into the writings and sutras of past teachers does not mean to learn something that is unrelated to us. Studying ancient writings means to study our lives. To study the Tenzo Kyōkun came to mean for me that I would be studying my own life."
– Dōgen
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"The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass."
– Dōgen
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Your weekly Dharma from The Essential Dogen.
Dogen speaks of attaining the way based on aspiration. It's about the journey, not how long it takes.
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When the mind is quiet
The moon reflects within it;
Then, even if there are waves,
They are bright 😊
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"To be in harmony with the oneness of life is to be without anxiety about imperfection."
– Dōgen
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lunar delight
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. —Dogen
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Your weekly Dharma from The Essential Dogen.
In Zen Buddhism, the practice of zazen (meditation) is the primary activity for revealing and cultivating Buddha Nature, which is something we all possess.
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Water birds
go and come back
without leaving any trace behind.
Even so, they do not forget
the path.
Dogen
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"Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools."
– Dōgen
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Excellent image. I think it pairs well with this poem by #Dogen that I translated earlier today:
Startled by the Sound of Rain
Hear the sound simply
Without thinking or feeling
Just become part
Of each jeweled drop
As it falls from the eaves
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Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to dharma see no dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of #dharma.
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This is a #meditation poem by #Dogen
The silence held deep
Within your heart/mind
Is like the moon’s clarity
Which can bring its radiance
Even to the breaking waves
静かなる
心の中に
すむ月は
波も砕けて
ひかりとぞなる
#Buddhism #tanka
print by Sandaime Horiyoshi
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