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In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.

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Dogen
Age: 53 †
Born: 1200
Born: January 19
Died: 1253
Died: September 29
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Eihei Dōgen
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