Good morning!
After some warm days we are now having lightening, which seem to bring rain giving life to plants and animals.
Japanese people call thunder kami-nari (雷), god’s roaring (神鳴り) but Edison found it as electricity. So, we don’t fear thunderclap, unless we are hit by thunderbolt.
There was a thunderbolt taking lives of two cows near where the Buddha was meditating. A farmer asked if he heard the thunderclap. He said, “No.”
Meditation, Zen, may be deep enough hearing nothing and can be wide enough seeing all phenomena in dependent origination.
Awakening is to see through all these, to become awakened to the source of our sufferings and to act wakefully solving them.
We need to practice Zen, stilling our deluded karma, seeing the awakened dharma, solving our problems, and saving from all from sufferings.
3/2/12
