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The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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
Dougen
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If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.
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Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.
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You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.
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Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.
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Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains
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Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.
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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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Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.
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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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Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth sun, moon, and stars.
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
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To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.
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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 arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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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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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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