Dogen’s Doei (道元道詠): Poems in the Way, 6

Five poems in reference to the Lotus Sutra, 4:

 

Colors of peaks and

Sounds of valleys are

Altogether voices and

Forms of our Shakyamuni.

 

Mine-no iro

Tani-no hibiki mo

Mina-nagara

Waga Shakamuni-no

Koe-to sugata-to

 

峯の色

谷の響きも

皆ながら

吾が釈迦牟尼の

声と姿と

 

 

Niigata

 

Kyoto

 

 

Cape Breton, by Reiner Harscher, National Geographic

 

 

Mont Saint Michel, National Geographic