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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
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Cold Drink Hot Practice Realization Water
Practice and enlightenment are not two.
DOGEN

Enlightenment Happen Practice Two
There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
DOGEN

Doubt Meditation Possibility Simplicity Student Thousand Truth
One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
DOGEN

Aware Deeply Impermanence World
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

Activity Breathing Epron Extension Individual People Universe
There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
DOGEN

Beginning End Enlightenment No Practice
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
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
DOGEN

Become Born Buddhist Child Mother Spiritual Study
What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
DOGEN

Good Mind Necessary People Thinking
I asked, “What are words?” The tenzo said, “One, two, three, four, five.” I asked again, “What is practice?” “Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.”
DOGEN

Ask Cooking Entire Hidden Nothing Practice Said Two Universe Word
Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
DOGEN

Come Go Leave Path Trace Waterbird
No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.
DOGEN

Clouds Hold Into Keep Out Strong Wind
Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
DOGEN

Eight Elbow Eye Three
What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
DOGEN

Fire Form Reality
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.
DOGEN

Cvain Dew Flash Lightning Lost Moment Momentary Morning
In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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Mundane Nothing Sacred Sacredness

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