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

Dogen

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
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Awakening Carry Delusion Forward Thing Yourself
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
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Awakened Enlightenment Self Set Spiritual Start Thing Understand
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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Discover Inspirational Life Original Selves War
Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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Abide Heart Return Speech Thing
Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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Bear Children Mind Parents Universe Whole
Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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Entire Hide Universe
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
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Cvain Dew Flash Lightning Lost Moment Momentary Morning
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.
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Away Nearer Need Since Step Truth
Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
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Ideas Learn Listen Unity Voice Within Yourself
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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Buddhist Flower Grow Love War Weed
There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
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Beginning End Enlightenment No Practice
When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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Appear Body Complete Mind Peace Perfect Thing
In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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Mundane Nothing Sacred Sacredness
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.
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Alert Believe Either Events Right Sage Word
Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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Amazed Dragon Reality True
Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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Enlightenment Happen Practice Two

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