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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.
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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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When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.
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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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To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.
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People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.
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Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.
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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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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.
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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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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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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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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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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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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
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When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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