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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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The color of the mountains is Buddha's body the sound of running water is his great speech.
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There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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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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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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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.
Dogen
If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.
Dogen
When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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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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If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.
Dogen
The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
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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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Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains
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Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth sun, moon, and stars.
Dogen
One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
Dogen
To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Dogen
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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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?
Dogen
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
Dogen
In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening?
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