A Zen master's life is one continuous mistake.Dogen
“A fish swims in the ocean, and no matter how far it swims there is no end to the water.”
Zen master · 1200 – 1253
Founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan and author of the Shōbōgenzō, a landmark of Buddhist philosophy.
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