"The color of the mountains is Buddha's body;……" — Dogen

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running… - Dogen

"The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech."

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83 Quotes by Dogen

Dogen has 83 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet…
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive…
In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by…
If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that…
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short…
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

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More Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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