"Do not follow the ideas of others but learn to listen to the voice within yourself" - Dogen Zenji

🕊️ Spirituality

“Do not follow the ideas of others but learn to listen to the voice within yourself”

Spiritual maturity means following ones own inner wisdom above all.

“If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it.”

— Dogen Zenji

“To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.”

— Dogen Zenji

“To study the self is to forget the self to forget the self is to be enlightened by all things”

— Dogen Zenji

“A flower falls even though we love it a weed grows even though we do not love it”

— Dogen Zenji

“Enlightenment is intimacy with all things”

— Dogen Zenji

“If you cannot find the truth right where you are where else do you expect to find it”

— Dogen Zenji