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What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.

Dogen

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
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
In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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Mundane Nothing Sacred Sacredness
A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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Continue Life Master Mistake People
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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All Anything Archive Enlightenment Meditation Method Oneness
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Buddhist Go Yourself Zen Proverb
One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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Aware Deeply Impermanence World
Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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Easy Seek True Way
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
Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
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Cold Drink Hot Practice Realization Water
Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
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Abandon Another Eye Home Land Region Seat Wander
When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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First Oneself Path Seek Separate Truth
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Forget Oneself Opening Yourself
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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Discover Inspirational Life Original Selves War
What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
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Good Mind Necessary People Thinking
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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Buddhist Compassion Enlightenment Thing

What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.

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What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.

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