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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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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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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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In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
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Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.
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Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.
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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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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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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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Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains they mean mountains are mountains.
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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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Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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