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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.
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
Dougen
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Things
Delusion
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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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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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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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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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Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth sun, moon, and stars.
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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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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.
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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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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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