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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

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Art Expect Spiritual Truth
If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.
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Care Certain Person Something Spiritual Thing Want
Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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Become Buddha Devil Look Mind Outside
What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
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Good Mind Necessary People Thinking
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
One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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Aware Deeply Impermanence World
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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Dewdrop Moon Reflect Relaxation Sky
To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
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Earth Enlight Religion Self Sell Study Thing
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.
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Always Badly Beautiful Enough Gain Goal Mean Soemrthing
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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Dew Discipline Every Fully Life Moment Short Student Time
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
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Forget Oneself Opening Yourself
What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.
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Buddha Forget Oneself Self Study Way World
To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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Anxiety Harmony Imperfection Wholeness
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Buddhist Go Yourself Zen Proverb
A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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Continue Life Master Mistake People

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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