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To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.
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
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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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To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
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I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.
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In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.
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Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.
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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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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.
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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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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.
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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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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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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.
Dogen
Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.
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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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Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.
Dogen
Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
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