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Dogen Quotes: To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
         

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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That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

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Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

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