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Dogen

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
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
DOGEN

Dewdrop Moon Reflect Relaxation Sky
Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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Come Go Leave Path Trace Waterbird
In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.
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Delusive Drink Eat Forsake Idea Quite Relationship Room Temepearte Thing
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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Buddhist Flower Grow Love War Weed
What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
DOGEN

Good Mind Necessary People Thinking
In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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Mundane Nothing Sacred Sacredness
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.
DOGEN

Buddhist Importance Life Opportunity Passes Supreme
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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Discipline Finding Life Mind Peace Profit Seek Stop
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
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Awakened Enlightenment Self Set Spiritual Start Thing Understand
There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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Complete Hiddenness Mountain Understanding
Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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Gateway Liberation Sit Sitting Truth
To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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Anxiety Harmony Imperfection Wholeness
When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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Get Mist Walk Wet
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
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
DOGEN

Forget Oneself Opening Yourself

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