Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.
DogenDo not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
DogenThere are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
DogenThat you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
DogenThe one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own seal upon yourself. If you do this as you sit in ecstatic meditation, the whole universe itself scattered through the infinity of space turns into enlightenment. This is what I mean by the Buddha's seal.
Dogen