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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
Bhikkhu
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
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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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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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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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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.
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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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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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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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Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.
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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and kind to juniors, not excluding or desiring anything, with no designing thoughts or worries, you will be called a buddha. Do not seek anything else.
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Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
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A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.
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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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All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.
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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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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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Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.
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Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
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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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