Good morning!
We say, “A moment of a spring evening is worth a thousand pieces of gold.” A spring
morning in sitting and stopping karma winds is priceless, devoid of delusion deceased
(gari-gari-mōja, 我利我利亡者), dead demons, and deadly devils as in the daytime
dealing.
Here is the significance of cultivation and verification. Only practice makes perfect paths,
persons, and places. The taste of amrita, ambrosia of immortality, is in actually acting
and achieving it here and now.
3/12/13
Note: Delusion deceased (gari-gari-mōja, 我利我利亡者, lit. Self-interest, self-interest
deceased) means the one who is deluded by “self,” and possessed by the self-interest
and become living dead, not living free and fully with all beings – wholly wholesome
living. In the daytime dealing with other humans we are drawn into this state of self-
interest dead or deadly dangers, which we avoid in the early morning natural world only
with beautiful birds’ singing and bunnies’ scurrying.
