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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 we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.
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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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To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.
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When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.
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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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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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Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.
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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.
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You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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The color of the mountains is Buddha's body the sound of running water is his great speech.
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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.
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Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.
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Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains they mean mountains are mountains.
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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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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