The Tips of the Mountains' Feet Set the Waters Dancing

"These mountains and rivers of the present are the actual realization of the Way of the old Buddhas. Each, abiding in its own dharma state, realizes completeness. ...

Because the blue mountains walk, they are permanent. Although they walk more swiftly than the wind, someone in the mountains does not realize or understand it. 'In the mountains' means the blossoming of the entire world. People outside the mountains do not realize or understand the mountains walking. Those without eyes to see mountains cannot realize, understand, see, or hear this as it is.

If you doubt mountains' walking, you do not know your own walking. It is not that you do not walk, but that you do not know or understand your own walking. Since you do know your own walking, you should fully know the blue mountains' walking....

All these mountains are moving over the water... The tips of the mountains' feet move across the waters, setting them dancing, therefore, walking extends everywhere, and practice and enlightenment are not non-existent."

from The Mountains and Waters Sutra, Eihei Dogen, 12th century Zen Master
[from Carl Bielefeldt/Kazuaki Tanahashi translations]

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“If you doubt the walking of the mountains, spacer it means you do not yet know the walking of your own self. ”

	"These mountains and rivers of the present are the actual realization of the Way of the old Buddhas. Each, abiding in its own dharma state, realizes completeness. ... Because the blue mountains walk, they are permanent. Although they walk more swiftly than the wind, someone in the mountains does not realize or understand it. 'In the mountains' means the blossoming of the entire world. People outside the mountains do not realize or understand the mountains walking. Those without eyes to see mountains cannot realize, understand, see, or hear this as it is. If you doubt mountains' walking, you do not know your own walking. It is not that you do not walk, but that you do not know or understand your own walking. Since you do know your own walking, you should fully know the blue mountains' walking.... All these mountains are moving over the water... The tips of the mountains' feet move across the waters, setting them dancing, therefore, walking extends everywhere, and practice and enlightenment are not non-existent." from The Mountains and Waters Sutra, Eihei Dogen, 12th century Zen Master [from Carl Bielefeldt/Kazuaki Tanahashi translations]