Good morning!
We have now a beautiful spring morning with sitting with Buddhas and singing of
birds.
An old Buddha said:
It is difficult to receive a human body and rare to meet the
Buddha-dharma. We have received human bodies and met
the Buddha-dharma. We are best
among all lives.
It is better to see even with one eye than being blind, not being able to see
all the beautiful things in this world.
Someone said, “It is abnormal to have two eyes and to be in one-eyed countries”
If we have two eyes with parallax, we can see things in perspective and profundity
in three dimensions.
If we have the third eye of prajñā, prognosis, we can see the paramount truth in the
other world in supramundane realm.
4/10/13
Note:
1．Hard is it to receive a human body, rare is it to meet the Buddha-dharma.
By virtue of stored merits, we not only have received human bodies hard to receive,
but also have met the Buddha-dharma. We are in the best lives among various births
and deaths and in the most blessed lives. We should not leave our dew-like lives to
the mercy of the wind of impermanence treating carelessly the most blessed bodies.
– Dogen, the Shushōgi, the Significance of Cultivation and Verification, Ch.1
2．Paramount truth, paramattha sacca, paramārth satya, shōgitai, 勝義諦