Dogen Quotes About Buddhism
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Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of Buddhism. The key to this is to renounce both body and mind without holding anything back and to offer them to the great sea of Buddhism.
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As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by birth. If this is the case, why did the Buddhas of all ages - undoubtedly in possession of enlightenment - find it necessary to seek enlightenment and engage in spiritual practice?
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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.
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