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
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- 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