Good evening!
We say a moment of a spring evening is worth thousands of gold pieces. When we sit,
it is priceless. We can sit, stop karmas, and see how we usually act. So, please sit with
your best body, brain, and breathing conditions in free and full function.
This is one of Dogen’s thirty casual poems, composed at his hut.
The path-ends of
One foolish mind
One seems to tread
As the Six Paths.
We can sit and see such civilization in sinful (separated, selfish) short-sights, strifes,
and sufferings continuously, if we continue our karma kinetics. If we contrive ourselves
with the triple poisons of desires, divisivenesses, and delusions, we come to the triple
tragedies of discrimination, exploitation, and extermination. So, we need to sit – solid,
serene, pure, and peaceful.
3/13/13
Note: The six paths are the paths or ways of hell beings, hungry ghosts, fighting
devils, and animal, human, and celestial beings.
African Lion, Tanzania, photo by Mitsuaki Iwago, posted in National Geographic