“Every Thing Is Buddha-Nature”
Photograph by John Diamond, M.D.
Zhanran, from the Chinese Tiantai School of Buddhism, proclaimed that “even non-sentient beings have Buddha-nature.”
This was transmitted to Japan by the monk Saichō and became Tendai Buddhism.
Every thing, every creature, is the Buddha-nature.
I hold this rock
– I Hold it –
and at times
I do Know.
And nearly always
when photographing.
