If you want to hear the teachings spoken in a way that points directly to the truth of what the Buddha taught, it's hard to find a better way or a better place than that pointed out by two of my favorite Japanese: Musō Kokushi and Ueshiba Morihei — the first a monk and poet, and the other the founder of Aikido.
The sounds of the stream splash out the Buddha's sermon.
Don't say that the deepest meaning comes only from one's mouth.
Day and night eighty thousand poems arise one after the other,
and in fact not a single word has ever been spoken.
---Musō Kokushi---
Do not fail to learn
from the pure voice of an ever-flowing mountain stream
splashing over the rocks.
---Ueshiba Morihei---
The teachings just can't be explained any more clearly than that and every time i read these quotes i want to cry for their beauty.
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