Dogen · Theology

The Mountains Are Always Walking

Dōgen&rsquo;s <em>Sansuikyō</em>, the &lsquo;Mountains and Waters Sūtra&rsquo;: the claim that nature itself is scripture, that &lsquo;the green mountains are always walking,&rsquo; and that self and world are not two - the landscape is the living body of the Dharma.

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You learned Dōgen&rsquo;s Sansuikyō : that mountains and waters are themselves a sūtra, that &lsquo;the green mountains are constantly walking&rsquo; (their stillness and their dynamism are not opposites), that water is seen a hundred ways with no single privileged view, and that self and world are non-dual. Explain h…

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