Each moment is all being, each moment is the entire world. … - Dōgen

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Each moment is all being, each moment is the entire world. Reflect now whether any being or any world is left out of the present moment.

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

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To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to forget even one's attachment to the goal. Doing that, one discovers oneself in all things and enters actual society.

It is only due to a lack of heart for the Way and a lack of skill in handling their daily conduct that people become vainly tied to fame and gain.

If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Each moment is all being, each moment is the entire world. Reflect now whether any being or any world is left out of the present moment. - Dōgen

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