Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Dogen Zenji

from the book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

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Further quotes from the book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind:

• Just to live
• Belief based on a self-centered idea
• Open to all the possibilities
• Your last moment
• The posture itself
• The quality of zazen will express itself
• Wisdom seeking wisdom
• Calmness in activity
• Empty and ready mind
• The teaching of transiency
• Opening up our small mind
• The awareness that you are here
• Weed
• Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble
• Accepting change
• Do not be bothered by anything
• The weeds you have in your mind
• Little by little
• Beginner’s mind
• Spacious control