Dogen, Wotan and Freya's Mountain Climb

Dogen Wotan Freya's Mountain Walk from Juniper to Pine

Wotan Freya is a walking mountain and a flowing stream 

(Part 1: Walking the mountains, walking the flowing streams - 

(Paul Manski) Kinnikinnick 

"Cascadia in late May Kinnikinnick, violets in bloom Waxing crescent moon Sun and Aldebaran conjunct as evening star in Taurus Rain turned to sleet and snow at sunset Walking along Smackout Creek Flowing streams Yarrow and the Arctic now awakening

 (Opening by Paul Manski) 

        Walking along the mountains now Mountains and flowing streams are essential to the ancient mountains. Climb a tree for yourself, claim a rune, and offer a stain to our people. They are priceless treasures of the eternal hills. Mountains and streams are complete in their own right. We must not be afraid to question, as the old woman laughs to herself, "How can I bear children too old to have them, and have them with joy, when my husband is too old?" Streams and mountains open up so many possibilities. For mountains and streams were created long before our people's myth of the blushing red man. 

      Who can blush? Who can walk with a smile? They are alive in this moment, just as we are. These mountains were perfectly created before the Earth lost its shape. Therefore, they are the redeemed, bountiful people of mountains and streams. Just because we lose sight of the mountains and streams we walk through, they do not lose or change their mountain and stream nature. They exist beyond our eyes, just as we must understand, drink, and bathe in the flowing waters of life. https://youtu.be/Uo-CI5g10M8?si=lcKF5zvy9DybceZw

     Offering a blot is like bathing in ice-cold water, like climbing a tree and walking among the mountains and streams of living water. This is the same insight as Dogen's "Mountains and Rivers Sutra": mountains are high, and streams are low. Mountains and streams are sublime because they are the gathering places and passageways for the sparks of life. Sparks of life in the clouds above the walking mountains are the mother and father of all things frolicking in the heavenly meadows, their love pouring down like spring rain. 

     Just as the fourteen meridians in our bodies flow, the mountain meridians, canyons, valleys, and streams are filled with alder, poleo, sarsaparilla, yarrow, and black cottonwood, with their sticky buds and sweet, spicy, and bitter balsam leaves. The streams you see lined with black cottonwood, spicy and sticky to the touch, are the same streams that flow through your arms and wrists, flowing through the microcosmic orbits to flex your muscles, invigorate your blood, invigorate your bones, and invigorate this stone. https://youtube.com/shorts/cHMe0VKxKVA?feature=share 

       In this way, clouds rule the mountains from above, and the open door of heaven can be reached by following the rainbow path from one end to the other through the mountains. Just as the Mint Canadensis of the Northern Hemisphere remains true to its original form, not mingling or mixing its pollen, so too do mountains and streams maintain their original form, producing mountains and streams one after another through a pact of seed. Acorns do not mingle with cherries, nor do they bear fruit; cherry bark is sweet-smelling, not bitter like the astringent bark of oak. 

      By the power of His unfathomable wisdom, the abysses are broken, and the clouds drop dew. This dew nourishes everything within the mountains. We see the mountains walking like this. It would not be surprising if suddenly, a sound like a raging wind were to resonate freely from the heavens, filling the mountains and streams with everything that dwells within them. Or, like the clouds, we might enjoy walking among the flowing mountains and streams. The joy of knowing our People First! people, the respect and loyalty to them, are in your family and inherent in Creation. 

      We know that at four o'clock in the morning, Wotan, hanging from a tree, walked over the sea to reach them. The limits of watery creation are as fluid as our minds. Didn't the children walk on dry land in the middle of the ocean? Didn't they have walls of water on their right and left when they arrived at Turtle Island in Leif Ericson's long boat? So the mountains and flowing streams are like walls to our left and right, flowing, clear paths. This same flow exists within our minds and bodies. The same breath that Wotan, the Perfect Father, and Freyja, the Perfect Mother, breathed into us, the creators, the blushing human beings, still gives life to the mountains and flowing streams.  

       These pure mountains and flowing streams offer many insights. Similarly, the mountain ranges are his pasture, and he seeks out every green thing that grows there. It is through his search that he learns and reveals to us the essential nature inherent in all greenery. It is this essential search that we know. These stone mountains before us are constantly moving. Take a stone and set it up as a pillar, a boundary for your people—blood of blood, bone of bone, stone of stone. So you will notice many stones and pillars in these mountains around you.

        This stone I have set up as a pillar will be our home. And with all that you give me, we will give you all our loyalty and courage as a people. So, as we enter the mountains and flowing streams, we enter into the home of our people on Turtle Island. It has ears, eyes, fingers, tongue, and toes, just like our own home. This is the home of the walking mountains and flowing streams. 

      The abundant walking mountains have given us a white rune stone, and on the rune stone a new name has been written. The name is the understanding of the rune behind the words. While you are in the region of the mountains and flowing streams, pay attention to the pillars, the stones, and the name he has written for you.


































The mountains do not lack the nature bestowed upon them by Wotan, the Father of all, and Freyja, the Mother of all. They exist within themselves and from themselves. The mountains and the flowing streams are destined to meet those who enter them. The nature bestowed by God upon the mountains and the flowing streams cannot be lost or gained. It is not yours, for we too have an inheritance in God. 

      We are destined according to the purpose of natural law, inherited from God, the Creator and Creator. God moves all things according to the purpose of natural law that governs our people and all things. Thus we are moved by God's plan and know everything that happens in the streams and mountains. This is how we can easily enter. If any of you lack wisdom, ask Wotan/Odin, who gives generously to those who strive, who does not reproach the fatherless and motherless, who generously builds up his people, and who loves those who are loyal to their tribe. Wisdom will be given to those who strive and sacrifice for their people. 

      Therefore, I have built you a home, a permanent settlement. This home, built for you, is here, like the mountains and streams. It is a home of self-study—an ecosystem, an earth where we walk among the mountains and streams flowing with living waters. There is happiness below as well as above; we look inward as we look outward, with one focus: happiness achieved through cultivation. 

       You should examine this quality closely—walking on water, or when a blind man looks up and says, "I see men walking like trees." Mountain walking is similar to human walking, for everything moves. The Spirit of Life moves across the water. Therefore, there is no point in doubting mountain walking, even if it appears different from human walking. Wotan, the Father of All, sent forth his Spirit, and we were created. And you, working together, renew the earth of Turtle Island, which belongs to us, our people. The words of our ancestor Wotan Odin—blood of blood, bone of bone, stone of stone—point to breathing, walking, that is, movement. We affirm the movement of fire in this stone, for through us we live, move, and exist. Some of your poets have said, "We too are descendants of Wotan, the Father of All Things." His descendants, the mountains and flowing streams, are also united with Freyja, the Mother of All Things. 

       This is an understanding of natural law. We should open these words in the midst of the flowing waters of the mountains and streams, realize that this movement is our own, and understand it accordingly. On May 22, 2020, the waxing crescent moon will set as the evening star at sunset, in conjunction with the sun and the star Aldebaran in Taurus. (Part 1: Wotan Freya's Mountain Walk, Flowing Stream - Paul Manski) 

References: 

Dogen Eihei, Dewdrop Moon: The Writings of Zen Master Dogen, edited by Tanahashi Kazuaki, North Point Press, 1995. 

Osgood, Keith. 2023. Völuspá. Independently published. 

Norrena Society. 182 pages; ISBN-13, 979-8856442433Pettit, Edward, ed. and trans. The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition . Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers , 2023. 

Shimano, Eido Tai. Personal notes on teishoanddokusan. 1984. (Dai Bosatsu Zendo Fall Kessei and winter retreat,rakusa in ketsanaku kechimyaku transmission ) https://www.shimanoarchive.com/PDFs/19860000_DBZ_Brochure.pdf 

Senzaki, N., Nakagawa, S., & Shimano, E. (1976). Namu Dai Bosa: A transmission of Zen Buddhism to America (L. Nordstrom, Ed.). Theater Arts Books.





By Wild Herb Ways Paul Manski

Dogen Wotan Freyja Walking Mountains

Dogen: Wotan Freyja are Walking Mountains and Creeks of Flowing Water

(Part 1: Walking Mountains, Creeks of Flowing Water
  - Paul Manski)

 

Kinnikinnick

"Late May Cascadia

kinnikinnick, violets, blooming

waxing crescent moon

in sidereal Taurus as evening star

conjunction sun and aldebaran 

at sunset rain turned to sleety snow

along smackout creek

walking mountains 

creeks of flowing water

yarrow and northern poleo waking up now"

(Opening by Paul Manski)

Walking Mountains

Mountains and creeks of flowing water right now are the essential things of ancient mountains. Climb the tree yourself to gain the runes, offer blot for our people. They are precious things of the everlasting hills. Each, mountain and creek, is itself complete. We should not be afraid to question, who like an old woman laughs within herself, saying, 'After I am waxed old beyond child birth shall I have pleasure, and expect to drop a child? My husband being old also?', many things are possible with creeks and mountains.

 

         Because mountains and creeks have been created since before the time myth of our people, the blushing red person. Who can blush? Who can smile and walk? They are alive like us, at this moment. These mountains have been perfectly made since before the earth was without form. As such they are redeemed, fertile mountain and creek persons. A mountain or creek does not become less a mountain or creek or change in any way, because we fail to see the mountain or creeks walking. They exist beyond our seeingness like understanding flowing water, drinking, bathing in living flowing water. Offering blot is bathing in ice cold water, like climbing the tree, like walking mountains and streams of living water.

        It was the same with Dogen’s seeing in Sutra of Mountains and waters. Because mountains are high and creeks are low. Mountains and creeks are gathering places and pathways, for the vital spark, so they are exalted. The vital spark in clouds over walking mountains is the all mother and all father cavorting in the heavenly meadow their love falling like rain in springtime. In the same way the 14 meridians of our body flow, so do mountain meridians, canyons and river valley and creeks flow with alder, poleo, sarsaparilla, yarrow, and black cottonwood, with sticky buds and sweet, spicy, bitter balsam leaf. The creek you see lined with black cottonwood, spicy and sticky to the touch, is the same creek flowing in your arms and wrist, in the micro cosmic orbit making flexible your sinews, blood of your blood, bone of your bone and stone of this stone. https://youtube.com/shorts/cHMe0VKxKVA?feature=share

     This way mountains commanded by clouds from above, and the opened doors of heaven is always reached in mountains following the path of the rainbow end to end; Just as northern poleo Mentha Canadensis is true to type and does not adulerate or mix pollen so mountain and creeks remain true to type, giving birth to mountains and creeks by the seed covenant, kind after kind. The acorn does not mix or fruit with cherry and the cherry bark is sweet fragrant and is not bitter like like astringent oak bark. By the inconceivable power of his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down dew. This dew nourishes all within the mountains. We see mountains walking in this way. It shouldn't be surprising if suddenly there comes a sound from heaven freely from the mountains as of a rushing mighty wind, and it fills all freely residing in within the mountains and creeks. Or if like clouds we have pleasure in knowing walking mountains and creeks of flowing water. For the pleasure of knowing and respect and loyalty to our Folk First! people is within your family, inherent in creation.

       We know in the fourth watch of the night Wotan hanging on the tree, went unto them, walking on the sea. The limits of created things like water are fluid like our hearts in knowingness. Didn't the children walk upon dry land in the midst of the sea;? with their long boats led by Lief Erikson coming to Turtle Island, and weren't the waters walls unto them on their right hand, and on their left? 

      So the mountains and creeks of flowing water are like walls on our left and right, pathways flowing, cleared. Within our heart and body there is this same flowingness, The same breath Wotan all-father with all-mother Freyja, breathed into the us of we creating, the blushing person, is still the breath that animates mountains and creeks of flowing water. Many insights are had in these pristine mountains and creeks of flowing water. So too, the range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing therein. Because he searcheth he knows the inner essential quality of every green thing and makes it known to us. What we are knowing is this essential searching. These stone mountains you see in front of your face are always walking; Take a stone, and set it up for a pillar for a boundary being for your people, blood of blood and bone of bone, stone of stone. So you will find stones and pillars in these mountains all around you. And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be our house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the all loyalty and bravery unto thee, the us of we as a people. So when we enter the mountains and creeks of flowing water we enter the house of our people on Turtle Island, the same as our own house with ears, eyes, fingers, tongue and toes. This is the house of walking mountains and flowing creeks. Walking Mountains with abundance gave a white stone rune, and in the rune stone a new name written. The name is the rune understanding behind words. You should be alert for pillars, stones and the name he has written for you while in the province of mountains and flowing creeks.

     Mountains do not lack the nature all-father Wotan and all-mother Freyja together has given mountains. They are in and of in themselves. Mountains and creeks of flowing water are predestined to encounter those entering. The nature he has given mountains and flowing creeks of water is not lost or gained, neither is your own as it is in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of natural law, the Creator and Creatoress, who worketh all things after the counsel of that natural law governing our people and all things. So we are worked by his counsel informing us all the goings on in creeks and mountain. In that way we enter easily. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of Wotan Odin that giveth to men liberally who struggle, and upbraideth not the fatherless or motherless building up our people with generosity those loyal to our tribe; and it shall be given to those who sacrifice and struggle for our people. Therefore it is said, I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever. The house built to dwell in, is here as mountains and creeks. This house is the eco-logy, the earth self study house, of us as tribe and people among walking mountains and streams of living water, one eyed single purpose for wellbeing as above so below, as outside seen as inside cultivated achieved. 

       You should examine in detail this quality of walking on water, or a blind man, when he looked up, and said, ‘I see men as trees, walking.’ Mountains' walking is like human walking, because all things are moving. The Spirit of life moved upon the face of the waters. Accordingly, it makes no sense to doubt mountains' walking even though it does not look the same as human walking. Wotan all-father sendest forth His spirit, we are created: and thou by working together renewest the face of the earth on Turtle Island belonging to us, we as a people. The ancestor Wotan Odin blood of blood, bone of bone, stone of stone words point to breathing walking, which is movement. We say yes to this movement, of fire in stone, For by us, we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also Wotan's all-father offspring. As his offspring are likewise mountains and flowing creeks of water unified in the all-mother Freyja. This is natural law understanding. You should break open these words within mountains and creeks of flowing water and understand their movements are our own and understand accordingly.

May 22, 2020 waxing crescent moon, setting at sunset as an evening star in conjunction with the sun and Aldebaran in sidereal Taurus.
(Part 1: Wotan Freyja Walking Mountains, Creeks of Flowing Water 
- Paul Manski)

References: 

Dōgen, Eihei. Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen. Edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi, North Point Press, 1995. 

Osgood, Keith. 2023. Völuspá. Independently published. Norrena Society. 182 pages ; ISBN-13, 979-8856442433

Pettit, Edward, ed. and trans. The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023.

Shimano, Eido Tai. Personal notes on teisho and dokusan. 1984. (Dai Bosatsu Zendo Fall Kessei and winter retreat,rakusa in ketsanaku kechimyaku transmission )

https://www.shimanoarchive.com/PDFs/19860000_DBZ_Brochure.pdf

Senzaki, N., Nakagawa, S., & Shimano, E. (1976). Namu Dai Bosa: A transmission of Zen Buddhism to America (L. Nordstrom, Ed.). Theatre Arts Books.