To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

Dogen Zenji

quoted in the book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

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

• Empty and ready mind
• The awareness that you are here
• Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble
• Do not be bothered by anything
• The weeds you have in your mind
• Little by little
• Belief based on a self-centered idea
• Opening up our small mind
• Your last moment
• The posture itself
• Just to live
• Open to all the possibilities
• Wisdom seeking wisdom
• Beginner’s mind
• Spacious control
• The true bow
• Calmness in Activity
• No trace
• Your own enlightenment
• The purpose of studying buddhism