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The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
Dogen
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Dogen
Age: 53 †
Born: 1200
Born: January 19
Died: 1253
Died: September 29
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Eihei Dōgen
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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.
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Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.
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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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If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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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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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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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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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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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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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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