Yesterday morning, after the usual Thursday meditation, some of us went up to a local coffee house. It had rained the night before, and I happened to look outside, and noticed raindrops hanging from the branches of a tree. They shone in the morning light from the sun rising over the Green Mountains, and the city of Rutland. When you moved your head slightly from side to side, you could see various colors from the spectrum reflected in the drops of water, purple and blue...orange, yellow, and red. On the one hand it was a very mundane and ordinary situation, water hanging from tree branches after a rain. On the other hand it was miraculous and beautiful; heavenly actually. There is so much beauty in the ordinary that is available to us, moment by moment, if we can just open ourselves up to it and experience it.
This earth where we stand is the pure lotus land, and this very body is the body of Buddha.
Hakuin
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