Dogen Quotes About Religion
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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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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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Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.
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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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