DogenThinkers

Attachment is broken by bringing benefit to others while gaining nothing for oneself.

Attachment is a vain enterprise. A flower falls no matter how much we love it, just as a weed grows no matter how much we do not love it.

Awakening is to realize that the truth is not that one carries oneself forward and experiences the myriad things... rather, the truth is that the myriad things come forward and experience themselves.

The Body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.

Buddha is one who, if sought outside the mind, changes into a devil.

The Buddha way is flowed into by those who are attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters.

Buddhism is not to be studied for the sake of oneself, rather, in the study of Buddhism, one must renounce body and mind and offer them to the great sea of Buddhism.

Difficulty is necessary in life. Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.

Ephemerality is the nature of the world. Eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.