Whatever comes to mind. Sometimes a story I read, sometimes something that came to me while holding my mala beads.
The great tea master Sen no Rikyu said tea is nothing more than boiling water, whisking tea, and drinking it. Yet he spent a whole winter preparing for just that. What hides in a bowl of clear water?
Last night I couldn't sleep. Tossed and turned, then got up and flipped through the Shurangama Sutra. There's a passage that stopped me cold — the Buddha said when someone points at the moon, you should look at the moon, not stare at the finger. It felt like a mirror showing me a habit I repeat every single day.
This morning I almost got hit, and then I thought of Zhuangzi's empty boat. All my anger was built on the assumption that there was someone on the other side.
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