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• You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.

  Dogen

  Light, Practice, Mind

  Dogen (2004). “Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.

  Dogen

  Heart, Return

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• Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.

  Dogen

  Needs, Steps, Truth Is

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• That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.

  Dogen

  Self, Enlightenment, Delusion

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• When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

  Dogen

  War, Inspirational Life, Discovery

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• That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

  Dogen

  Awakening, Delusion

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• What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.

  Dogen

  Reality, Fire, Icicles

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• Continuous practice, day after day, is the most appropriate way of expressing gratitude. This means that you practice continuously, without wasting a single day of your life, without using it for your own sake. Why is it so? Your life is a fortunate outcome of the continuous practice of the past. You should express your gratitude immediately.

  Dogen

  Gratitude, Mean, Past

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• I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.

  Dogen

  Buddhism, Live By, Letting Things Happen

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• If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.

  Dogen

  Discipline, Mind, Finding Peace

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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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.

  Dogen

  Blue, Color, Sky

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• Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.

  Dogen

  Self, Mind, Enlightenment

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• Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.

  Dogen

  Believe, Events, Sage

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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• If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

  Dogen

  Want, Way, Expect Nothing

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• Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.

  Dogen

  Land, Sitting, Where You Are

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• Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.

  Dogen

  Wise, Fool, Defeated

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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.

  Dogen

  Senior, Simple, Worry

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• Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.

  Dogen

  Practice, Understanding, Intellectual

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• People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.

  Dogen

  People

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• In the stream,
  Rushing past
  To the dusty world,
  My fleeting form
  Casts no reflection.

  Dogen

  Reflection, Past, Rushing

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• One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

  Dogen

  World, Impermanence

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• Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

  Dogen

  War, Thinking, Enlightenment

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• Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.

  Dogen

  Breathing, Individual, Activity

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• There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.

  Dogen

  Practice, Enlightenment, Ends

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• Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.

  Dogen

  Path

  "The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry". Book by Stephen Mitchell, 1989.

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