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Quotes by Eihei Dogen

To study the Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

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

Eihei Dogen
 
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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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