Quotes from Dogen

Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.

Each moment of zazen is equally wholeness of practice, equally wholeness of realization. This is not only practice while sitting, it is like a hammer striking emptiness: before and after, its exquisite peal permeates everywhere. How can it be limited to this moment?

The time of our delusion does not obstruct the time of our realization. Our practice is not in order to attain realization. Practice itself is the actualization of realization.

Abandonnez les offrandes d'encens, les prosternations, le nenbutsu, la pratique du repentir et la lecture des sutras : restez simplement assis (shikantaza).

Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening