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Dogen
Age: 53 †
Born: 1200
Born: January 19
Died: 1253
Died: September 29
Bhikkhu
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
Dougen
Buddhist
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is not yet painting Spring.
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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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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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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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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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Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains
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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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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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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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People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
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There are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth.
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The true person is Not anyone in particular But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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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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Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.
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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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