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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.

Dogen Zenji : Japanese Zen Buddhist Grand Master
Dogen Zenji (1200 - 1253)
 
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Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself.
Studying oneself is forgetting oneself.
Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things.
Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others.
No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment
continues endlessly.

Dogen Zenji : Japanese Zen Buddhist Grand Master
Dogen Zenji (1200 - 1253)
 
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Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

Dogen Zenji : Japanese Zen Buddhist Grand Master
Dogen Zenji (1200 - 1253)
 
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The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Dogen Zenji : Japanese Zen Buddhist Grand Master
Dogen Zenji (1200 - 1253)
 
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Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions; they have not discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.

Dogen Zenji : Japanese Zen Buddhist Grand Master
Dogen Zenji (1200 - 1253)
Source: Awakening the Unsurpassed Mind,
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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.

Eihei Dogen
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"To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion.
That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening."


~Dogen, "Actualizing the Fundamental Point"

From "Teachings of the Buddha," edited by Jack Kornfield

Eihei Dogen
 
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Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.

Dogen Zenji : Japanese Zen Buddhist Grand Master
Dogen Zenji (1200 - 1253)
 
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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once around original selves.

Eihei Dogen
 
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Believe nothing.
No matter where you read it,
Or who said it,
Even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha : Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: The Dhammapada
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