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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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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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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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Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
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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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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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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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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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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.
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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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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.
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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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