Zuihitsu
Gratitude is the Soul at work.
So whatever you did for the grateful sufferer, basically, it was healing.
Our basic task in life is to come to Know our mothers as the Mother of Love, to live at last in the state of Belovedness. Not that she, in reality, needs to change, but rather that we need to change our inner image of her.
At the deepest level,
The more the creativity is altruistic,
the more is it coming direct from the Muse.To desire to be free of anguish (the Buddha’s First Noble Truth) is actually to increase our anguish, for the Second Noble Truth is that the anguish is caused by desire. The answer would seem to be that we should be altruistic, with no desire to help the other,
As the Buddha taught, our lives our anguish, because, I am led to believe, we do not Know our Innate Perfection, our Buddha-Nature, our Soul.
One way to the Soul is through outwardly-directed, altruistic, acts of High Creativity – for these come from the
A birthday is not so much the child’s as the mother’s.
Today my paintings, new born, are being displayed to the world. Not my day but that of my painting guides. Through me, they are painting again.
Today is their re-birth day.
There is a dark labyrinth through which we must find a way to come, at last, to the Soul.
Music, Art – all Creativity – can be the Golden Thread.
My two favorite trees:
one covered with lichen: eczema,
the other twisted: scoliosis.Do I love them most
because they are like patients?And is that why
I feel most loved by them?