Myoho Harris, Rev. Master

On our altars there is a water cup, which sits before the Buddha. That cup represents you, me, each one of us. We train to receive what arises within us, from the great mystery that we call meditation. Like that little cup, we do not know what that will be. Only that we are ready.

The choices we make in how we use our minds, how we live our lives, are of vital importance to the deepening of our practice. The will, and commitment, needed to cease from endlessly recreating the same cycles of mental fabrication, is rooted in a love of the truth. Dharma is truth. When we dwell within the enclosure of meditation, offering the mind back to its source, wanting to know what is real, instead of trying to fill the mind with self-created scenarios and strategies, we become as that precious little water cup, which has a clean, open space, ready to receive the incoming Buddha, sometimes referred to as the water of the spirit; the bringer of truth.

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