"To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world."

– Dōgen

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"Treading along in this dreamlike, illusory realm, Without looking for the traces I may have left; A cuckoo's song beckons me to return home; Hearing this, I tilt my head to see Who has told me to turn back. But do not ask me where I am going,
As I travel in this limitless world,
Where every step I take is my home."

– Dōgen

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Dans ma hutte de paille
Que je sois assis ou debout
Je ne cesse d'invoquer
la miséricorde des Bouddhas :
Qu'ils fassent passer tous les autres
Avant moi.

--
in Poèmes zen de maître Dôgen - Calligraphies de Hachiro Kanno, coll. Les carnets du calligraphe, Albin Michel, 2003

(poèmes tirés des Chants de la Voie du Pin parasol, Sanshô Dôei)

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Sans utiliser de caractères

Impossible de définir
Ce qui est par-delà les mots
Dans le pinceau ne doit même pas rester
Une goutte d'encre.

Dôgen Zenji

--
in Poèmes zen de maître Dôgen - Calligraphies de Hachiro Kanno, coll. Les carnets du calligraphe, Albin Michel, 2003

(les poèmes sont tirés des Chants de la Voie du Pin parasol, Sanshô Dôei -
je découvre aussi le travail de Hachiro Kanno, c'est très riche, étonnant)

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"In spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; in summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you."

– Dōgen

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"Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately."

– Dōgen

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"You wash the bowl, and the universe is cleansed."

– Dōgen

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"The whole world is a single flower; each and every phenomenon is a blossom from that flower."

– Dōgen

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"A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it."

– Dōgen

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"Looking deeply into the writings and sutras of past teachers does not mean to learn something that is unrelated to us. Studying ancient writings means to study our lives. To study the Tenzo Kyōkun came to mean for me that I would be studying my own life."

– Dōgen

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