A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.Dogen
“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self.”
Zen master · 1200 – 1253
Founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan and author of the Shōbōgenzō, a landmark of Buddhist philosophy.
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