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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.

Dogen

There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Doubt Meditation Possibility Simplicity Student Thousand Truth
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
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
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
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Buddhist Compassion Enlightenment Thing
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
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All Anything Archive Enlightenment Meditation Method Oneness
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
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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Aware Enlightenment Necessary Thinking War
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
Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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Eight Elbow Eye Three
An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
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Ancient Buddha Mean Mountain Water Word
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Buddhist Go Yourself Zen Proverb
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Forget Oneself Opening Yourself
Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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Entire Hide Universe
A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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Continue Life Master Mistake People
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 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

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