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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
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
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Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.
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IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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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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A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.
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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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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
Dogen
The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
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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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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
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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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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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Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.
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