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Dōgen
Also known as: 道元, Dōgen Zenji, Eihei Dōgen, Dōgen Kigen, 道元希玄, 永平道元, 道元禅師, Zen Master Dōgen
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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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From the nature of reality in our life experience at the present time, we say these sliding doors are new, or the ceiling is old. We imagine that this ceiling was made several decades or several centuries ago because of its present nature of appearing old. Yet in reality, only the present exists. The past and the future do not exist [separate from the present].

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.