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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Dogen

Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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Become Buddha Devil Look Mind Outside
Practice and enlightenment are not two.
DOGEN

Enlightenment Happen Practice Two
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.
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Buddhist Importance Life Opportunity Passes Supreme
Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
DOGEN

Beginning End Enlightenment Practice Realization Since
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
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
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
DOGEN

Cease Follow Intellectual Practice Speech Understanding Word
One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
DOGEN

Aware Deeply Impermanence World
When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
DOGEN

Get Mist Walk Wet
There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
DOGEN

Beginning End Enlightenment No Practice
Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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Appear Doubt Human May Mountain Walk
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
There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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Complete Hiddenness Mountain Understanding
A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
DOGEN

Fool Himself Men Other Wise
Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
DOGEN

Come Go Leave Path Trace Waterbird
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
Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
DOGEN

Easy Seek True Way
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
DOGEN

Become Born Buddhist Child Mother Spiritual Study
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.
DOGEN

Buddha Forget Oneself Self Study Way World
Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.
DOGEN

Inch Life Light Moon Puddle Reflect Wide
Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
DOGEN

Entire Hide Universe
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
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
We must always be disturbed by the truth.
DOGEN

Always Disturbed Must Truth
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
Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.
DOGEN

Always Badly Beautiful Enough Gain Goal Mean Soemrthing

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