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

Dogen

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
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
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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Dewdrop Moon Reflect Relaxation Sky
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
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.
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Clouds Hold Into Keep Out Strong Wind
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
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All Anything Archive Enlightenment Meditation Method Oneness
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?
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Doubt Meditation Possibility Simplicity Student Thousand Truth
When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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First Oneself Path Seek Separate Truth
Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
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Actually Bebnefically Drop Mountain Ocean Opportunity Root Single
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
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.”
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Ask Cooking Entire Hidden Nothing Practice Said Two Universe Word
There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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Attach Buddha Flower Mountain Water Way
To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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Forget Self Study Way
A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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Continue Life Master Mistake People
People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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Buddha Like People Person True
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Forget Oneself Opening Yourself

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