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When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
Dogen
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Dogen
Age: 53 †
Born: 1200
Born: January 19
Died: 1253
Died: September 29
Bhikkhu
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.
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Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.
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Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.
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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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Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.
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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 we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.
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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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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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To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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