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Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth sun, moon, and stars.
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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There are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth.
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There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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The color of the mountains is Buddha's body the sound of running water is his great speech.
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