Weight of One’s Worth

Good evening!

 

Now we have the beautiful, bright moon in the clear, calm autumn sky. I got an email from a friend of mine quoting the famous phrase of Shibasen (Shimaqian): “Man must die, whose weight can be heavy as the great mountain or light like bird’s hair.”

 

He made his comment that those who make money in the bubble in the capital society weigh as light as bird’s hairs. Motakutou (Maozedong) wrote that those who live for people weigh like mountains and that those who live for fascism weigh like bird’s hair.

 

Those who live with all and for all beings in time and space with the universal truth and peace weigh as heavy as the universe. Those who live bubbly life for bubbles weigh as light as bubbles.

 

10/6/11

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