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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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Philosopher
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
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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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A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.
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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.
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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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