These three short poems are each written by Dogen, they arose from his reflections on the Lotus Sutra. They capture something of what he was trying to convey through his own Mountains and Waters Sutra; that an intimate connection with reality in its true state is right in front of our eyes.
In the valley, vibrating sounds
On the peak, monkeys' intermittent chattering,
I hear them as they are exquisitely expounding this sutra.
Grasping the heart of this sutra
even the voices of selling and buying
in the world are expounding the Dharma.
Colours of the mountain peak and echoes of the valley stream
all of them as they are, are nothing other
than my Shakyamuni's voice and appearance.
Eihei Dogen
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