Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Bad Weather



So sometimes we say "bad weather" just meaning that it was not as good as yesterday. This is "bad weather" in the relative sense. We compare two things and make a judgment based on the contrast between the two. On the other hand, I tried to imagine "bad weather" in the absolute sense. It might be the raining of arrows, as happened to Buddha (in his mind) the night of his enlightenment. Luckily he put up a Buddha shield and the arrows turned to flowers. If he hadn't done that, he would have experience truly "bad weather."

Read more about the middle way.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

More words!

Kim Mosley said...

Imagine arrows coming down from the sky. Now that would be "bad weather."

Who's in the world?

Xiushan said, "What can you do about the world?" Dizang said, "What do you call the world?"