Dogen Water Quotations

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

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

There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.

An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.

Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.