You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
Dogen
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Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
Dogen
Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.
Dogen
There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
Dogen
There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
Dogen
Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
Dogen
