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

Dogen

Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.
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Always Badly Beautiful Enough Gain Goal Mean Soemrthing
Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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Enlightenment Happen Practice Two
Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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Blossom Bound Emptiness Grass
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
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
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
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Cvain Dew Flash Lightning Lost Moment Momentary Morning
That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
DOGEN

Awakening Carry Delusion Forward Thing Yourself
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
We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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Always Disturbed Must Truth
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
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Buddha Expect Nothing Grasp Want Way
There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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Complete Hiddenness Mountain Understanding
Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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Become Buddha Devil Look Mind Outside
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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Doubt Meditation Possibility Simplicity Student Thousand Truth
People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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Buddha Like People Person True
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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Buddhism Buddhist Life Ourselves Space Study
Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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Gateway Liberation Sit Sitting Truth

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