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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
Dogen
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Dogen
Age: 53 †
Born: 1200
Born: January 19
Died: 1253
Died: September 29
Bhikkhu
Leader
Philosopher
Teacher
Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
Dougen
Relaxation
Grass
Sky
Entire
Moon
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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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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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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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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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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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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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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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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If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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