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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
🌿 Dogen Zenji
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Bodhisattva - Gwyllm Llwydd
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
- Dōgen Zenji
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"... learn to listen to the voice within yourself."
- Dogen Zenji
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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Dōgen Zenji
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Do not follow the idea of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself.
Dogen
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Buddha meditated six years for enlightenment, Bodhidharma for nine. The practice of meditation is not a method for attainment of realization - it is enlightenment itself.
- Dogen Zenji
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“It's too late to be ready.”
― Dogen Zenji
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
- Dogen Zenji
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There is No Buddha-Dharma Outside the Mind, by Harada Sekkei Roshi
There is No Buddha-Dharma Outside the Mind, by Harada Sekkei Roshi http://wp.me/pFy3u-2J2
At the beginning of Keizan Jokin Daishi’s Zazen Yojinki, there is the teaching ‘Zazen directly lets people illumine the mind and rest peacefully in their fundamental endowment.’ In Eihei Dogen Zenji’s Fukanza-zengi, we can find this same teaching expressed as `When you seek the Way, it is found to be essentially universal and complete. How, then, can it be contingent upon practice and…
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"When even for a moment you sit upright in samadhi expressing the buddha mudra [form] in the three activities [body, speech, and thought], the whole world of phenomena becomes the buddha mudra and the entire sky turns into enlightenment. Accordingly, all buddha tathagatas increase dharma bliss, the original source, and renew their magnificence in the awakening of the way. Furthermore, all beings in the world of phenomena in the ten directions and the six paths, including the three lower paths, at once obtain pure body and mind, realize the state of great emancipation, and manifest the original face. At this moment, all things actualize true awakening; myriad objects partake of the buddha body; and sitting upright, a glorious one under the bodhi tree, you immediately leap beyond the boundary of awakening. Then, you turn the unsurpassably great dharma wheel and expound the profound wisdom, ultimate and unconditioned."
-Dōgen Zenji
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A bird calls
announcing the difference
between heaven and hell.
~ Dogen Zenji
[h/t Ian Sanders]
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If only it was one continuous mistake… oh, it is. Mind the gaps, please.
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“Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.”
Dogen Zenji
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