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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.
Dogen
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Dogen
Age: 53 †
Born: 1200
Born: January 19
Died: 1253
Died: September 29
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
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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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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.
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I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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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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To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.
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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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Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
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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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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 monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.
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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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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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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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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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Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.
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