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.
Quotes added by Daikan
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.
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.
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
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.
There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
"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
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.
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once around original selves.
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.

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