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Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
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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
Dogen
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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 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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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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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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Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.
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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.
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If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.
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Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by birth. If this is the case, why did the Buddhas of all ages - undoubtedly in possession of enlightenment - find it necessary to seek enlightenment and engage in spiritual practice?
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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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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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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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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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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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