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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
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Philosopher
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
Dougen
Intimacy
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Enlightenment
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A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.
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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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I asked, What are words? The tenzo said, One, two, three, four, five. I asked again, What is practice? Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
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I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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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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The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
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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 study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.
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When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.
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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.
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Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.
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But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
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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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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.
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To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
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