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Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.
Dogen
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Dogen
Age: 53 †
Born: 1200
Born: January 19
Died: 1253
Died: September 29
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
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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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Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.
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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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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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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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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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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.
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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
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Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
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If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
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If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.
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Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.
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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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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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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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The color of the mountains is Buddha's body the sound of running water is his great speech.
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