Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.

DOGEN

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Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.

Dogen

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Badly Goal Mean Soemrthing

Bagwalas

But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.

DOGEN

But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
DOGEN

Go
Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
DOGEN

Abide Return Thing
Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.

DOGEN

Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
DOGEN

Become Buddha
Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.

DOGEN

Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
DOGEN

Appear Doubt May
Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

DOGEN

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.
DOGEN

Before Responsibility Say Three
Time is three eyes and eight elbows.

DOGEN

Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
DOGEN

Eight Elbow Eye Three
Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.

DOGEN

Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.
DOGEN

Engage Moderate Pass Saving
Practice and enlightenment are not two.

DOGEN

Practice and enlightenment are not two.
DOGEN

Two
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.

DOGEN

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.
DOGEN

Delusive Drink Forsake Idea Temepearte Thing
Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

DOGEN

Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
DOGEN

Easy Way
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.

DOGEN

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.
DOGEN

Begin Cling Over Refrain Sentiment
When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

DOGEN

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
DOGEN

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

DOGEN

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

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

DOGEN

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

End No
Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.

DOGEN

Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.
DOGEN

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

DOGEN

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

Profit

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