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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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
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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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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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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.
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There are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth.
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