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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
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Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth sun, moon, and stars.
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Through one word, or seven words, or three times five, even if you investigate thoroughly myriad forms, nothing can be depended upon. Night advances, the moon glows and falls into the ocean. The black dragon jewel you have been searching for, is everywhere.
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Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
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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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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.
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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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If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.
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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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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for 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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In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening?
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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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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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