Good morning!
We have a splendid, serene Sunday morning after our sittings and service. We saw a bright, boundless, beautiful world even at the half moon stage of the super, hunter, full moon one week earlier. The super moon is brighter due to its closest proximity to the earth. The bright, boundless, beautiful full moon represents the Buddha heart.
When we come closer to the Buddha heart, our world becomes brighter, more boundless, and beautiful, like the world illuminated by a moon that is closer, or closest to us, like the super full moon. When we are closer to good friends (kalyāna mitra), we can enjoy our bright, boundless, beautiful world, as the Buddha said that friends make our whole life.
When we take refuge in the Triple Treasures of the Awakened (Buddha), Dharma, and Sangha, we are endowed with the bright, boundless, and beautiful world of wholly wholesome truth, goodness, and beatitude, as we were this morning. We take refuge in them as the supreme of the unsurpassed, the supreme of purity, and the supreme of harmony.
We cultivate ourselves in the Triple Learning of morality, concentration, and prognosis (sīla, samādhi, prajňā), ceasing the Triple Poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion, walking in the Eightfold Holy Ways, the Sevenfold Awakening Limbs, the Sixfold Perfection of Prognosis, etc., witnessing the Four Holy Truths in nirvana and unsurpassed awakening.
10/23/16
– The half moon is in the center of the above picture –
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