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Forgetting oneself is opening oneself

Dogen

IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
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Behind Egotism Excercise Exercise First Free Greed Relinquish
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
When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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Appear Body Complete Mind Peace Perfect Thing
When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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Get Mist Walk Wet
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
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Buddhist Go Yourself Zen Proverb
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
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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Buddhist Compassion Enlightenment Thing
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Forget Oneself Opening Yourself
No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.
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Clouds Hold Into Keep Out Strong Wind
If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
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Just Practice See Thing Want
That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
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Advance Call Confirm Delusion Enlightenment Self Ten Thousand
When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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First Oneself Path Seek Separate Truth
People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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Buddha Like People Person True
But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
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Ask Go Home Travel World

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