Good morning!
We had a light shower last night, so it is still a little cloudy. Thus we saw the very
thin, dim moon.
Today is the Flower Festival Day commemorating the Buddha’s birth. The full moon
shines forth fully, only when the moon faces directly to the sun of clear and calm
truth and peace.
The King Mirror reflected the total truth of the great living elephant unlike the thin,
dim image of it by the blind people, who insisted on their partial truth and fought for
it.
The realization right hereunder, stressed in the last chapter of the Collection of
Cautions in Learning the Way by Dogen, is this coincidence the firm practice mind
and the Buddha way right hereunder.
This actual sitting is the direct contact with the Buddha way and the Buddha mind
here and now.
4/8/13
