Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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?
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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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If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.
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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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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.
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
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Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
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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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Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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