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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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Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.
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Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.
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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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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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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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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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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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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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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
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Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth sun, moon, and stars.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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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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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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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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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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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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