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Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.

Dogen

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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Destroy Drop Individual Moon Realization Reflection Sky Water
An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
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Ancient Buddha Mean Mountain Water Word
Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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Abide Heart Return Speech Thing
The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
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Birth Come Enlightenment Go Painting Sky Unsurpassed
Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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Come Go Leave Path Trace Waterbird
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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Dewdrop Moon Reflect Relaxation Sky
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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Discipline Finding Life Mind Peace Profit Seek Stop
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Buddhist Go Yourself Zen Proverb
People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
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Buddhist Conceal Follow People Way
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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Chase Light Mind Phrase Practice Stop Word
Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation – this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.
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Begin Birth Cling Compassion Death Deep Evil Over Refrain Respect Sentiment Work Worry
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Forget Oneself Opening Yourself
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
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Become Born Buddhist Child Mother Spiritual Study
One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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Aware Deeply Impermanence World
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
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

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