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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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Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
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Actually Bebnefically Drop Mountain Ocean Opportunity Root Single
To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
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Anxiety Harmony Imperfection Wholeness
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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Dewdrop Moon Reflect Relaxation Sky
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
DOGEN

Discipline Finding Life Mind Peace Profit Seek Stop
The true person is Not anyone in particular; But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.
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Anyone Blue Color Everything Limitless Person Sky World
To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
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Earth Enlight Religion Self Sell Study Thing
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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Buddhist Compassion Enlightenment Thing
Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.
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Eat Engage Fire Head Moderate Pass People Save Saving
People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
DOGEN

Buddha Like People Person True
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
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
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
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
We must always be disturbed by the truth.
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Always Disturbed Must Truth
You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.
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Chase Light Mind Phrase Practice Stop Word

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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