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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Dogen
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Dogen
Age: 53 †
Born: 1200
Born: January 19
Died: 1253
Died: September 29
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Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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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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Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.
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