Ocean Palace

"For instance, if you are in a boat out of sight of land and look in all four directions,

you just see a circle, but the fact is that you are not seeing what is really there:

this great sea is not a circle, nor a square, 

the virtues of the ocean are inexpressible.

According to the scope of one's eye it is like a palace, 

like a necklace of jewels, 

or anything at all. 

Just for now, one only sees a circle. . . 

The merits of the ocean and the merits of the mountains are inexhaustible,

not to mention those of the incomparable domains of the four directions.

One should know it is like this right here, even in a single drop."

Eihei Dogen

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