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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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
Dougen
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Doubt
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Humans
Mountains
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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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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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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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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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If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.
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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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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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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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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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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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Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.
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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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Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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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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Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
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A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.
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