Dogen

“This is the meaning of practice-realization.”

“Do not grasp; do not push away.”

“Just sit, and the whole world arrives.”

“It is also an established teaching of buddha-dharma to say that death does not turn into birth.”

“Accordingly, death is understood as no-death.”

“Birth is an expression complete this moment.”

“Death is an expression complete this moment.”

“They are like winter and spring.”

“You do not call winter the beginning of spring, nor summer the end of spring.”

“To carry over to the next moment, the moon is in the dewdrop.”

“The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.”

“Although its light is wide and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide.”

“The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in dewdrops on the grass, or even in one drop of water.”

“Enlightenment does not divide you, just as the moon does not break the water.”

“You cannot hinder enlightenment, just as a drop of water does not hinder the moon in the sky.”

“The depth of the drop is the height of the moon.”

“For each reflection, however long or short its duration, you should examine the breadth of the great water and the height of the great sky.”

“Likewise, when you examine the myriad things, you should know that things are neither one nor different.”

“They look round or square, depending on the angle from which you observe.”