The blue mountains are constantly walking.
-Dōgen
If you doubt mountains walking
you do not know your own walking.
-Furong
Blue mountains
after rainfall -
much bluer
-A Zen Forest
Beyond
the white clouds -
a blue mountain:
A traveler
goes
beyond that mountain.
-A Zen Forest
The eastern mountains
walk on the waters.
-A Zen Forest
Don't say
no one comes
this far.
These eye-filling mountains:
not your best friends?
-A Zen Forest
I don't know
the true face of
this Hermit Mountain.
Because I
live here on it.
-A Zen Forest
Hearken, my sons! If you want
To climb the mountain peak
You should hold the Self-mind's light,
Tie it with a great "Knot,"
And catch it with a firm "Hook."
If you practice thus
You can climb the mountain peak
To enjoy the view.
-Milarepa
Living on the mountain:
a few steps
from the gate
Gives a whole landscape
of hundreds and thousands
of mountains and rivers.
-A Zen Forest
On the terrace of Immortals,
I climb straight to the highest level.
-Wu Cailan
Old age deepens
the love
of mountain life.
Dying by the cliffside:
my bones
will be clean.
-A Zen Forest
You cannot stay on the summit forever.
You have to come down again...
One climbs and one sees;
on descends and one sees no longer, but one has seen.
There is an art of conducting oneself...
by the memory of what one saw higher up.
When one no longer sees, one can at least still know.
-Rene Daumal
