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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
Dogen
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Dogen
Age: 53 †
Born: 1200
Born: January 19
Died: 1253
Died: September 29
Bhikkhu
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Philosopher
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
Dougen
Enlightenment
Practice
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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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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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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.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.
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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.
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Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.
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When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.
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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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Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.
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People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.
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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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Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.
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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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In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
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If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.
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