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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
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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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Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.
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Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.
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Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
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Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth sun, moon, and stars.
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People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.
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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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