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

Dogen

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
DOGEN

Anxiety Harmony Imperfection Wholeness
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.
DOGEN

Ideas Learn Listen Unity Voice Within Yourself
An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
DOGEN

Ancient Buddha Mean Mountain Water Word
Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
DOGEN

Gateway Liberation Sit Sitting Truth
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
DOGEN

Cease Follow Intellectual Practice Speech Understanding Word
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
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
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
To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
DOGEN

Forget Self Study Way
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
DOGEN

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

Eat Engage Fire Head Moderate Pass People Save Saving
Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
DOGEN

Amazed Dragon Reality True
When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
DOGEN

Get Mist Walk Wet
One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
DOGEN

Aware Deeply Impermanence World
People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
DOGEN

Buddhist Conceal Follow People Way
Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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Blossom Bound Emptiness Grass

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

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