Good evening!
It is a little overcast, but we hope we can see the full moon, which represents
the Buddha mind, the round, beautiful, bright moon. On the ground we still see
some stored snow, but daffodils are reblooming and forsythias are just budding.
The Buddha mind is free from stored-snow-like stored consciousness of karma,
and the full-moon-like full function of dharma, beyond the apparent changing phases,
functioning like the great round mirror in the great round ball of the clear crystal world.
Dogen said, “Awakening is not attained by the mind, but by the body.” It means that we
must put our whole beings, body and brain, and the whole world, the true body, into
free, full function, neither bubble-begotten nor boundary-bound, neither biased nor
unbalanced.
The Buddha mind is “the exquisite mind of nirvana storing the right dharma eye”
(shōbōgenzō-nehanmyōshin: 正法眼蔵涅槃妙心). That is why we must sit solid, still,
and serene, stop our karmas, see the dharmas, and serve and save all beings in the
unified wholly wholesome world.
3/27/13
