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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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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Dōgen Zenji
Dōgen Kigen
Eihei Dōgen
Dogen
Dougen
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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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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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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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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 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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People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.
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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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Through one word, or seven words, or three times five, even if you investigate thoroughly myriad forms, nothing can be depended upon. Night advances, the moon glows and falls into the ocean. The black dragon jewel you have been searching for, is everywhere.
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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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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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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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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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A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.
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The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.
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In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening?
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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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When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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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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As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by birth. If this is the case, why did the Buddhas of all ages - undoubtedly in possession of enlightenment - find it necessary to seek enlightenment and engage in spiritual practice?
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