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• Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five clusters, if they practice sincerely they attain enlightenment. Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. This is because the four elements and five clusters and plants, trees, fences and walls are fellow students; because they are of the same essence, because they are the same mind and the same life, because they are the same body and the same mechanism.

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  Life, Wall, Essence

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• Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.

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  Buddhist, Everyday, Worldly Life

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• Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.

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  Reflection, Moon, Sky

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• Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.

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  Light, Self, Mind

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• When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

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  Mist, Walks, Wet

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• Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.

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  Truth, Sitting, Gateways

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• Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.

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  Short Life, Discipline, Dew

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• The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.

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  Practice, Training, Firsts

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• In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

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  Buddhist, Light, Waves Breaking

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• 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.

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  Self, World, Way

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• The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

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  Sky, Enlightenment, Painting

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

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  Self, Religion, Earth

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• 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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  Truth, Simplicity, Meditation

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• You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

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  Mother, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.

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  Flower, Water, Mountain

  Dogen (2004). “Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.

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  Mean, Water, Mountain

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• Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we grasp onto the physical forms we see. Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we cling to the sounds we hear. As a consequence, we make ourselves inseparable from all things, yet we are not like some shadowy figure 'lodging' in a mirror or like the moon in water. Whenever we witness what is on the one side, its opposite side will be in darkness.

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  Buddhist, Moon, Mirrors

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• The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own seal upon yourself. If you do this as you sit in ecstatic meditation, the whole universe itself scattered through the infinity of space turns into enlightenment. This is what I mean by the Buddha's seal.

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  Mean, Space, Meditation

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• Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.

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  Ocean, Opportunity, Roots

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• 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.

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  Practice, Enlightenment, Realization

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• 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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  Drinking, Thinking, Ideas

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• Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.

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  Home, Eye, Land

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• A fish swims in the ocean, and no matter how far it swims there is no end to the water. A bird flies in the sky, and no matter how far it flies there is no end to the air. However the fish and the bird have never left their elements. Thus each of them totally covers its full range, and each of them totally experiences its realm... Know that water is life and air is life. The bird is life and the fish is life. Life must be the bird and life must be the fish... practice, enlightenment and people are like this.

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  Ocean, Practice, Sky

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• Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

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  Wall, Practice, Tree

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• Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.

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  Our Lives

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