From Dogen's 1242 lecture, "Painting of a Rice-cake":
You should examine a painted buddha and examine a painted rice-cake. Which
is the black stone tortoise, which is the iron staff? Which is form and
which is mind? Pursue and invetigate this in detail. When you penetrate this
matter, the coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed
enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty
sky are nothing but a painting.
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