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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
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When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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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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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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A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.
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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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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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When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.
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Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
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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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Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
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Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.
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In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.
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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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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth sun, moon, and stars.
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Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.
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There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and kind to juniors, not excluding or desiring anything, with no designing thoughts or worries, you will be called a buddha. Do not seek anything else.
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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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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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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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