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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.
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
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Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.
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But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
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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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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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Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.
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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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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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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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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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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.
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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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Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.
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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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People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
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Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.
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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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