“Coming, going, the waterbirds
don't leave a trace
don't follow a path.”

—  Dogen

As quoted in The Enlightened Heart : An Anthology of Sacred Poetry (1989) by Stephen Mitchell, p. 50

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Japanese Zen buddhist teacher 1200–1253

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