"Attitude" from "The Zen Reader" edited by Thomas Cleary

- Even if you are in a high place, don't forget you many fall. Even if you are safe, don't forget danger.   Even though you are alive today, don't assume you will be alive tomorrow.
- The mind has no fixed characteristics; depending on circumstances, it may turn out any way at all.
- Even if it is painful and lonely, associate with worthy companions.
- Consider how you will travel the path, without taking notice of slander from others, without heeding   resentment from others.
- Do not think of studying Buddhism in order to gain some advantage as a reward for practicing        Buddhism.
- Everyone has great faults, and pride is the greatest fault.
- Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among the fools.
- If the mentality that seeks honor and advantage does not cease, you will be ill at ease all your life.
- Students of the Way must individually examine their own selves. To examine yourself means to    reflect upon how you should carry yourself, mentally and physically.
- If the heart is not empty, it will not admit truthful words.
                                                                           Dogen p136

"Morals" from "The Zen Reader" edited by Thomas Cleary

- The ancients thought it shameful to seek advancement or to want to be the head of somethings, or the chief or senior.
- No one should torment people or break their hearts.
- Just regard people's virtues, don't be obsessed with their faults.
- People should cultivate secret virtue.
- No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.
- Do not be so proud as to hope to equal the great sages; do not be so mean as to hope to equal the ignoble.
- If one pursued selfish schemes to stay alive, there would be no end to it.
- There is fundamentally no good or bad in the human mind; good and bad arise according to circumstances.
- Though a nobleman's power is greater than that of an ox, he does not contend with an ox.
- To plow deep but plant shallow is a way to natural disaster; if you help yourself but harm others, how could there be no consequences?
                                                                 Dogen p133