Your search among books, word upon word, may lead you to the depths of knowledge, but it is not the way to receive the reflection of your true self. When you have thrown off your ideas as to mind and body, the original truth will fully appear. Zen is simply the expression of truth; therefore longing and striving are not the true attitudes of Zen.
Dogen Zenji
from the book
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 :
- The truth is the reality of mind
- Meditation is enlightenment itself
- Do not desire realization
- Allow the practice itself to be liberation
- Think non-thinking
- Truth is ever present
- Open your mind
- Meditation posture