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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.
Dogen
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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
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Continuous practice, day after day, is the most appropriate way of expressing gratitude. This means that you practice continuously, without wasting a single day of your life, without using it for your own sake. Why is it so? Your life is a fortunate outcome of the continuous practice of the past. You should express your gratitude immediately.
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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
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If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.
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Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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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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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
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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 you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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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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Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is not yet painting Spring.
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Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
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People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.
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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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But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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