From ‘Bendōwa’ (辨道話 – Discourse on the Practice of the Way), in the Shōbōgenzō, by Eihei Dogen

“From the start of your training under a wise master, have no recourse to incense offerings, prostrations, recitation of buddha names, repentances, or sutra reading. Just sit in meditation and attain the dropping off of mind and body.”

From ‘Bendōwa’ (辨道話 – Discourse on the Practice of the Way), in the Shōbōgenzō, by Eihei Dogen