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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
Dogen
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Dogen
Age: 53 †
Born: 1200
Born: January 19
Died: 1253
Died: September 29
Bhikkhu
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Philosopher
Teacher
Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
Dougen
Forget
Forgetting
Opening
Oneself
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IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
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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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Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
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If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
Dogen
If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.
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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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To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.
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In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.
Dogen
People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.
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Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
Dogen
Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.
Dogen
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
Dogen
When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.
Dogen
Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
Dogen
I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
Dogen
In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
Dogen
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.
Dogen
