IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.

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IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.

Dogen

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You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.

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You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.
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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

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Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
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We must always be disturbed by the truth.

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We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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The true person is Not anyone in particular; But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.

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The true person is Not anyone in particular; But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.
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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself

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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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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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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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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.

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What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.

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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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Amazed Dragon
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Realization doesn’t destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.
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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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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

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