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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.

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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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Buddhist Compassion Enlightenment Thing
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Art Expect Spiritual Truth
There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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Attach Buddha Flower Mountain Water Way
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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Dewdrop Moon Reflect Relaxation Sky
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
Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
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Among Defeated Excel Fool Prefer Wise
In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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Break Buddhist Clear Light Mind Reflect Wave
People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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Buddha Like People Person True
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
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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Aware Enlightenment Necessary Thinking War
We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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Always Disturbed Must Truth
Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
DOGEN

Backward Inward Light Mind Self Turn
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
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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Buddha Forget Oneself Self Study Way World
A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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Fool Himself Men Other Wise
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

Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.

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