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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
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Enlightenment
Practice
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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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The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.
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In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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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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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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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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Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
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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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Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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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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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.
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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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There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth sun, moon, and stars.
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