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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
Dogen
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Dogen
Age: 53 †
Born: 1200
Born: January 19
Died: 1253
Died: September 29
Bhikkhu
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Philosopher
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
Dougen
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Hundreds
Emptiness
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Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
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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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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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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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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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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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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.
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Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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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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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
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Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.
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If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.
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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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Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains
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Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.
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