Good morning!
When we come here and sit in zazen, we can enjoy peace, truth, beauty, and goodness with the fresh air and the birds’ singing. Thus, we realize the wholly wholesome state.
This is possible only by our practice. This, however, is only one side of religious practice, and is not complete yet. We must realize the wholesome whole with the entire world. If we become awakened and wakeful, we unify with flowers at the altar and flowers in the garden.
When we walk in the garden, we can enjoy beautiful colors, good fragrance, and truthful environment, the result of efforts of everything and everyone that has helped bring them to us. Beautiful flowers with leaves, stems, and all others are one including the whole world.
This holy (wholly wholesome) truth, goodness, and beauty is realized in ourselves and in the world. Only then do our praxes, cultivation and verification, practice and witness, become complete. Otherwise we remain separated, limited, and incomplete.
We need to become both wholly wholesome and wholesome whole – an individual and the whole world – in holy truth, goodness, and beauty in total harmony.
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