Good morning!
After a long spell of heat wave, we may have rain and a little milder weather with a little lower temperature today. We are lucky to get up, come here, and sit in zazen in the early morning.
Today’s doan had a car breakdown on her way back from a trip. Stock prices plunged here yesterday, and will perhaps across the globe today as well. The approval rating of Congress went down to a record low of 14%. We don’t know how our economy and ecology will go.
We see a little bit of their trends, but don’t really know the real breakdown. The most unknown breakdown may be our own life. If we want to know the approval ratings of our own lives, we must know that all things are impermanent.
We must know that our life is precarious and impermanent each second. The impermanence may take us over at any moment. The Buddha said that it presses upon us like the east, west, south, and north mountains are simultaneously pressing in upon us.
8/5/11
