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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
Dogen
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Dogen
Age: 53 †
Born: 1200
Born: January 19
Died: 1253
Died: September 29
Bhikkhu
Leader
Philosopher
Teacher
Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
Dougen
Spirituality
Compassion
Things
Intimacy
Buddhist
Enlightenment
More quotes by Dogen
I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.
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Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.
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In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening?
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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
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People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.
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In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.
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A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.
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Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
Dogen
Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.
Dogen
Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.
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Continuous practice, day after day, is the most appropriate way of expressing gratitude. This means that you practice continuously, without wasting a single day of your life, without using it for your own sake. Why is it so? Your life is a fortunate outcome of the continuous practice of the past. You should express your gratitude immediately.
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Through one word, or seven words, or three times five, even if you investigate thoroughly myriad forms, nothing can be depended upon. Night advances, the moon glows and falls into the ocean. The black dragon jewel you have been searching for, is everywhere.
Dogen
When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
Dogen
Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.
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Studying 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
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
Dogen
