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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.
Dogen
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Dogen
Age: 53 †
Born: 1200
Born: January 19
Died: 1253
Died: September 29
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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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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
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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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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
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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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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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Continuous practice, day after day, is the most appropriate way of expressing gratitude. This means that you practice continuously, without wasting a single day of your life, without using it for your own sake. Why is it so? Your life is a fortunate outcome of the continuous practice of the past. You should express your gratitude immediately.
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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 we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.
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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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Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.
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But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
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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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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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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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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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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
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