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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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The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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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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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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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
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People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth sun, moon, and stars.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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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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Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.
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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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