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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

Dogen

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.
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Buddhist Importance Life Opportunity Passes Supreme
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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Activity Breathing Epron Extension Individual People Universe
When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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Get Mist Walk Wet
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
DOGEN

Forget Oneself Opening Yourself
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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Buddhist Compassion Enlightenment Thing
Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
DOGEN

Gateway Liberation Sit Sitting Truth
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
Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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Become Buddha Devil Look Mind Outside
In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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Mundane Nothing Sacred Sacredness
Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
DOGEN

Amazed Dragon Reality True
Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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Come Go Leave Path Trace Waterbird
When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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First Oneself Path Seek Separate Truth
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
We must always be disturbed by the truth.
DOGEN

Always Disturbed Must Truth
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
DOGEN

Buddhist Go Yourself Zen Proverb
Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.
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Action Buddhist Day Dharma Discover Every Everyday Obstacle Worldly Life

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