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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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
Buddhist
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If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.
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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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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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If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.
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A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.
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There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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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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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
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People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.
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Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
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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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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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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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Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.
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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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