Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

Everything except language
knows the meaning of existence.
Trees, planets, rivers, time
know nothing else. They express it
moment by moment as the universe.

Even this fool of a body
lives it in part, and would
have full dignity within it
but for the ignorant freedom
of my talking mind.

I saw a reference to this poem somewhere, and indeed it does sum up Dogen’s view of the dharma.