Focus your mind on one thing, absorb the old examples, stud… - Dōgen

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Focus your mind on one thing, absorb the old examples, study the actions of the masters- penetrate deeply into a single form of practice.

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Dōgen (道元; also Dōgen Kigen 道元希玄, Eihei Dōgen 永平道元, titled as Dōgen Zenji [Zen Master Dōgen] 道元禅師) (19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist priest, writer, poet, philosopher born in Kyōto, and the founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan.

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Pen Names: 高祖

Alternative Names: Dōgen Zenji • Dōgen Kigen • Eihei Dōgen • Dougen

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春は花
夏ほととぎす
秋は月
冬雪さえて
すずしかりけり

The time of our delusion does not obstruct the time of our realization. Our practice is not in order to attain realization. Practice itself is the actualization of realization.

As long as you try to figure out buddha dharma with mind, you can never attain it even for myriad eons or thousands of lifetimes. It is attained by letting go of the mind and abandoning views and interpretations.

Focus your mind on one thing, absorb the old examples, study the actions of the masters- penetrate deeply into a single form of practice. - Dōgen

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