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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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Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
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I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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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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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.
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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 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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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.
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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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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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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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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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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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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.
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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
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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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Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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