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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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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
Dougen
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Nothing
Mind
Things
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The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
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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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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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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is not yet painting Spring.
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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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Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.
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IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
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In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening?
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Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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The true person is Not anyone in particular But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.
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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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