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Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

Dogen

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
Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
DOGEN

Come Go Leave Path Trace Waterbird
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
DOGEN

Forget Oneself Opening Yourself
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
DOGEN

Discipline Finding Life Mind Peace Profit Seek Stop
Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
DOGEN

Easy Seek True Way
Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
DOGEN

Entire Hide Universe
Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
DOGEN

Eight Elbow Eye Three
Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.
DOGEN

Alert Believe Either Events Right Sage Word
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
A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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Fool Himself Men Other Wise
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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Buddhist Compassion Enlightenment Thing
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.
DOGEN

All Anything Archive Enlightenment Meditation Method Oneness
When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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Get Mist Walk Wet
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
DOGEN

Art Expect Spiritual Truth
The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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Coem First Go Practice Recognition Step Training
To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
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Concentrate Mean Mind Opinion World

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