The marvelousness of life

My dear dharma brother! I’ve got your letter today and so glad to know you are still fine. Last time heard your back got crazy pain, is it reducing now? I had asked some brothers to send you medicines, have you taken yet? In fact, stayed away from all of you I got some sadness but also in happy when you all understood and our companionship always in connection.

That’s such our monkhood’s love, quite as stream and overflowing as the ocean. Coming and going caused by the condition.

These days, I had a trip to Canada under the take care of some devotees. Canada’s sight-seeing is so immense and peaceful, its largeness makes people feel nothing, inconsiderable. At that moment I was going to reach the eternal breath, in and out equanimity …. Life is really wonderful, isn’t it? That’s always our practice’s destination: go back to what is being and living. Out existence always there, not coming, not going.

This recalled me to the beginning of being a monk, the period of “initial Buddha”. Nothing can campare to the initial mind’s power, and it’s nothing but existence, my dear friend. Being a monk we devote our lives to others, we live not for individual selfishness but for the high ideal, living to devote our mission.

So marvelous! The breath in the vast universe is full of energy! It’s the freedom, ease and liberation’s energies. I really want to be up to the sky, want to be cloud then can give you a protection. The cloud looks leisure but not aimless, although coming and going, it presents in every moment.

You all are the mild cloud, including you, your dharma brothers and devout Buddhist. Your compassion enough for everyone wherever you are.

Life still going on and people also find the best choice of life, just a bit confused there when they haven’t recognized what is the true living yet. Their choice base on discrimination and they seem spending whole life for fighting and satisfying desires, then the true living, true happiness always present but they are too busy to see, to feel. Really pity they are!

Did you remember the poorest guy mentioned in the Lotus Sutra? Till we feel how the marvelous life is, we are not different from him. We are still good and lucky enough, so don’t miss any second of life for being present, for the living, no matter life’s short and impermanent. For insight seeing, we’re not coming or going but the eternity’s stuff and the representation of knowing and loving.

Life is endless when our compassion spread to every sentient being, by that we are always here.

Let’s breathe for being here, for the marvelousness of life.

Thich Tam Hoa