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To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

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
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
In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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Mundane Nothing Sacred Sacredness
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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Buddhist Compassion Enlightenment Thing
Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.
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Dusty Land never Place Sitting Travel Truth
There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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Complete Hiddenness Mountain Understanding
If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.
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Care Certain Person Something Spiritual Thing Want
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
DOGEN

Discover Inspirational Life Original Selves War
There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
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Beginning End Enlightenment No Practice
That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
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Awakening Carry Delusion Forward Thing Yourself
Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
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Abandon Another Eye Home Land Region Seat Wander
When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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Get Mist Walk Wet
Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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Entire Hide Universe
Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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Eight Elbow Eye Three
A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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Fool Himself Men Other Wise
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

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