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Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.
Dogen
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Dogen
Age: 53 †
Born: 1200
Born: January 19
Died: 1253
Died: September 29
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
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You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.
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If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
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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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As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by birth. If this is the case, why did the Buddhas of all ages - undoubtedly in possession of enlightenment - find it necessary to seek enlightenment and engage in spiritual practice?
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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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Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.
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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 the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.
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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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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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To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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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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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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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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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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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.
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