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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
Leader
Philosopher
Teacher
Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
Dougen
Bound
Bounds
Grass
Grasses
Like
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Bloom
Openness
Hundreds
Emptiness
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Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.
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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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What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.
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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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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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The true person is Not anyone in particular But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.
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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.
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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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All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.
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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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I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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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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To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.
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