Life is short and no one knows what the next moment will bring. Open your mind while you have the opportunity, thereby gaining the treasures of wisdom, which in turn you can share abundantly with others, bringing them happiness.

Dogen Zenji

from the book Buddhism and Zen

translated by Nyogen Senzaki & Ruth Strout McCandless


source: https://www.dailyzen.com/journal/practice-of-meditation


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Further quotes from the book Buddhism and Zen:

• Truth is ever present
• Meditation posture
• The truth is the reality of mind
• Meditation is enlightenment itself
• Zen is simply the expression of truth
• Do not desire realization
• Allow the practice itself to be liberation
• Think non-thinking