A dream. It’s like a dream.Or, maybe a bit of a joke.But also serious. As serious as life and death.I vow to save the many beings.I vow to awaken the many beings.
To paraphrase Professor Hustwitt, to model Buddhism as a discrete and homogenous thing is a useful fiction. The Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico are separately named, but these are not discrete bodies of water. For me what happens where the Atlantic meets the Gulf of Mexico in religion. What happens when Zen lands in North America is the story of my life.
Ceasing from evil, grasping, the constellations of greed, becomes generosity. Ceasing from evil, aversion, the constellations of separation and resentment and hatred, becomes clarity. And, ceasing from evil, certainties all the constellations of certainty become endless curiosity, the not knowing that our tradition tells us is most intimate.So, cease from evil.