Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.
DogenSince it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
DogenStudying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.
Dogen