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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.
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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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Continuous practice, day after day, is the most appropriate way of expressing gratitude. This means that you practice continuously, without wasting a single day of your life, without using it for your own sake. Why is it so? Your life is a fortunate outcome of the continuous practice of the past. You should express your gratitude immediately.
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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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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.
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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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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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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
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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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Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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I asked, What are words? The tenzo said, One, two, three, four, five. I asked again, What is practice? Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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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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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
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Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.
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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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Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.
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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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