Although we like to say simple pleasures are the best and claim we love people who are the salt of the earth, most of us do not act this way. We might think all things are part of a blessed creation, but we don't treat them as such. Buddha's teaching asks us to practice what we preach. If Buddha can be found in a simple leaf, well, Buddha must be everywhere. Buddhist scriptures tell us over and over that all things are Buddha's body. The trick is seeing them that way. Dogen emphasizes that this is practice and awakening at once: when we treat the leaf as Buddha we won't need to give special care to Buddha's body since we already lavish that care on the whole world. acting this way is acting as Buddha: acting as Buddha we are Buddhas. Being Buddhas we save all living things. It starts with the leaf