Mountains and Rivers Sutra Kaz Tanahashi Hobai Pekarik

1 Mountains and Waters Discourse Karl Bielefeldt Mountains and Rivers Sutra Kaz Tanahashi Hobai Pekarik Mountains and waters right now are the actualization of the ancient Buddha way. Each, These mountains and rivers of the present The mountains and rivers of the present abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes are the actualization of the word of the ancient moment are the actualization of the teachings completeness. Because mountains and waters Buddhas. Each, abiding in its own dharma of ancient Buddhas. By dwelling together in have been active since before the Empty Eon, state, completely fulfills its virtues. Because their dharma state they are brining about the they are alive at this moment. Because they they are the self before the germination of any merit of thorough investigation. Because they have been the self since before form arose they subtle sign, they are liberated in their are the condition from before the Kalpa of are emancipation realization. actualization. Emptiness, they are the activity of the present Because mountains are high and broad, the Because the virtues of the mountain are high moment; because they are the self before any way of riding the clouds is always reached in and broad, the power to ride the clouds is indications [of difference] arise, they are the mountains; the inconceivable power of always penetrated from the mountains; and the actualized liberation. Due to the fact that the soaring in the wind comes freely from the ability to follow the wind is inevitably liberated various merits of the mountains are so high and 2 mountains. from the mountains. so broad, the power to ride the clouds Priest Daokai of Mt. Furong said to the The Master Ta-Yang Shan-K'ai addressed necessarily spreads [upward] from the assembly, "The green mountains are always the assembly: "The blue mountains are mountains, and the wondrous practice of walking; a stone woman gives birth to a child constantly walking. The stone woman gives following the wind necessarily liberates 3 at night." Mountains do not lack the qualities birth to a child in the night." The mountains [outward] from the mountains. of mountains. Therefore they always abide in lack none of their proper virtues; hence, they Priest Kai of Mount Sanyo said to the ease and always walk. You should examine in are constantly at rest and constantly walking. assembly, “The blue mountain walks detail this quality of the mountains walking. We must devote ourselves to a detailed study constantly; the stone woman gives birth in the Mountains' walking is just like human walking. of this virtue of walking. The walking of the night.” 4 Accordingly, do not doubt mountains' mountains is like that of people: do not doubt The mountains do not lack [any of] the walking even though it does not look the same that the mountains walk simply because they merit that they ought to possess. For this as human walking. The Buddha ancestors' may not appear to walk like humans. These reason, they are constantly dwelling peacefully; words point to walking. This is fundamental words of the Patriarch point out the they are constantly walking. You should understanding. You should penetrate these fundamental meaning of walking, and we directly study the merit of that walking in words. should thoroughly investigate his teaching on minute detail. Because the walking of a "constant walking." mountain must be like the walking of a person, do not doubt that the mountain walks, thinking 1 Mountains and waters are viewed as a sutra, or actual expression of the Buddha's enlightenment. 2 "Riding the clouds" and "following the wind" represent the state of freedom in meditation. 3 Jiatai Record of the Universal Lamps, Chap 3 4 In the realm of nonduality, mountains and human beings are not separate. that [it is impossible] because it does not look the same as people striding. Because green mountains walk, they are This statement of the Buddha ancestor 5 permanent. Although they walk more swiftly Because the blue mountains are walking, they already points to walking. This is his than the wind, someone in the mountains does are constant. Their walk is swifter than the attainment of the fundamental. You should not realize or understand it. "In the mountains" wind; yet those in the mountains do not sense investigate this “constantly walking” address to means the blossoming of the entire world. this, do not know it. To be "in the mountains" the assembly. People outside the mountains do not realize or is a flower opening " within the world." Those Because it is walking, it is constant. Although understand the mountains walking. Those outside the mountains do not sense this, do not it is clear that the blue mountain’s walking is without eyes to see mountains cannot realize, know it. Those without eyes to see the “faster than the wind,” people in the mountains understand, see, or hear this as it is. If you mountains do not sense, do not know, do not are not aware of it and do not know it – being doubt mountains' walking, you do not know see, do not hear this truth. “in the mountains” means the opening of a your own walking; it is not that you do not Those who doubt that the mountains walk flower within the world. People outside the walk, but that you do not know or understand do not yet understand their own walking. It is mountains are not aware and do not know – it your own walking. Since you do not know your not that they do not walk, but that they do not is this principle: people without eyes to see the walking, you should fully know the green yet understand, have not made clear, their mountains are not aware and do not know, do mountains' walking. Green mountains are walking. Those who would understand their not see and do not hear. Those who doubt that neither sentient nor insentient. You are neither own walking must also understand the walking mountains walk also do not yet know the 6 sentient nor insentient. At this moment, you of the blue mountains. The blue mountains are walking of the self. It is not that the self is cannot doubt the green mountains' walking. neither sentient nor insentient; the self is without walking. The walking of the self is not You should study the green mountains, neither sentient nor insentient. Therefore, we yet known. They have not clarified it. And in using numerous worlds as your standard. You can have no doubts about these blue mountains the same way that they want to know the self should clearly examine the green mountains' walking. walking, they must also directly know the blue walking and your own walking. You should We do not realize that we must clarify the mountain walking. also examine walking backward and backward blue mountains on the basis of innumerable The blue mountain definitely is not sentient, walking and investigate the fact that walking dharma realms. We must carefully investigate and is not insentient. The self definitely is not forward and backward has never stopped since the walking of the blue mountains, the walking sentient, and is not insentient. It is impossible the very moment before form arose, since the of the self. And this investigation sjould to doubt the walking of this blue mountain. We time of the King of the Empty Eon. include walking backward as well as backward do not know how many dharma worlds would Green mountains master walking and walking. We should carefully investigate the be sufficient to clarify the blue mountain. You 7 eastern mountains master traveling on water. fact that since that very time before any subtle should consider clearly the walking of the blue Accordingly, these activities are a mountain's sign, since the age of the King of Emptiness, mountain, and the walking of the self. practice. Keep its own form, without changing walking both forward and backward has never Backwards stepping and stepping backwards stopped even for a moment. If walking had should be considered together. 5 In the realm of wholeness, one's experience goes beyond the limited span of time. 6 Here again the experience in meditation of the wholeness of mountains and human beings is indicated. 7 From a nondualistic viewpoint, mountains have inconceivable function beyond stillness and motion. body and mind, a mountain always practices in ever rested, the Buddhas and Ancestors would You should consider that since that very time every place. never have appeared; if walking were limited, before there were any indications [of the Buddha dharma would never have reached differences], around [the time of] the King of the present. Walking forward has never ceased; Emptiness, walking forward and backward has walking backward has never ceased. walking not stopped for a moment. If walking had forward does not oppose walking backward, paused, Buddhas and ancestors would not have nor does walking backward oppose walking appeared. If walking had reached its limit, the forward. This virtue is called "the mountains Buddha Dharma would not have reached this flowing, the flowing mountain." day. Forward stepping has not yet stopped; The blue mountains devote themselves to backward stepping has not yet stopped. When Don't slander by saying that a green mountain the investigation of walking; the East Mountain the stepping is forward, it does not oppose cannot walk and an eastern mountains cannot devotes itself to the study of "moving over backward stepping; when the stepping is travel on water. When your understanding is water." Hence, this study is the mountains' own backward, it does not oppose forward stepping.

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