Dogen Zenji

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

I come to realize that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and stars.

To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.

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.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir – a constant source of energy, determination and kindness.

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.

When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.

What was never lost can never be found.

Perhaps the most spiritual thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with the eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.

There’s nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain’t going to have no troubles.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.