Good evening!
Now we have the crisp crescent moon in the crisp cool sky. So, we can not see the world clearly. As the moon grows bigger and brighter, and become full, brilliant and beautiful, then we can see our world clearly and calmly.
The Buddha said that religion is cultivation. Cultivation eventually leads to the Buddha mind, the awakened mind like the full moon, clear and cool as the dharma world, at last becoming dharma itself.
Otherwise we remain ignorant, ignoble, and ill-fated, involving all others also in time and space. The awakened way is to become completely awakened, attaining unconditioned peace. Nothing surpasses it and nothing is more necessitated than it in this world.
2/24/12
