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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
Forgetting
Opening
Oneself
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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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Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.
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I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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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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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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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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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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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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Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.
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Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.
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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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When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.
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When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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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.
Dogen
Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.
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Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.
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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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