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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.

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  Expression, Rivers, Religion

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• Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.

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  Ocean, Water, Mountain

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• When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is not yet painting Spring.

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  Spring, Plums, Peaches

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• In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this is what awakening the mind for enlightenment is like. The fifth patriarch of Zen was once a pine-planting wayfarer; Rinzai worked on planting cedars and pines on Mount Obaku. . . . Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

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  Wall, Heart, Practice

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• Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.

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  Buddhism, World, Study

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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• Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.

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  People, Desire, Doe

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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• Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.

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  Eye, Dust, Dharma

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• Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.

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  Views, Mountain, Scales

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• Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

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  Practice, Distraction, Dharma

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• When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.

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  Two, Religion, Way

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• All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.

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  Lying, Spring, Eye

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• Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

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  Self, Practice, Excellence

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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• In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening?

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  Sleep, Autumn, Moon

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• Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains

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  Clouds, Wind, Mountain

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• Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of Buddhism. The key to this is to renounce both body and mind without holding anything back and to offer them to the great sea of Buddhism.

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  Buddhism, Keys, Sea

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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