Dōgen
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Dōgen · 1200–1253
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“He crossed the sea to solve one burning question — if we are already Buddha, why practice? — and came home with the strangest answer in the history of philosophy: because the practicing is the being.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“You do not practice in order to become enlightened, and you do not exist in time — practice is enlightenment already happening, and every being is its time.”
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