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Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.
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
Dogen
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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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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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When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.
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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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Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.
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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
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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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Through one word, or seven words, or three times five, even if you investigate thoroughly myriad forms, nothing can be depended upon. Night advances, the moon glows and falls into the ocean. The black dragon jewel you have been searching for, is everywhere.
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Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth sun, moon, and stars.
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