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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
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
Dougen
Forgetting
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Oneself
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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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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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In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.
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Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.
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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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People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.
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Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.
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If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.
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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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Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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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.
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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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I asked, What are words? The tenzo said, One, two, three, four, five. I asked again, What is practice? Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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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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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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Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.
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Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
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