Buddha Helps Buddha

If Everyone and Everything is Buddha, why does it sometimes feel like we are getting electrocuted by another person. We get cut off in traffic. Someone cuts in front of us in line, at the store. Someone at work say's they are going to do something that is their responsibility and they allow it to fall through, right on to us. It seems pretty unfair. It sometimes feels so unfair that I can end up feeling, sad and disappointed, at myself and others. But after that, then what comes next it up to me. Am I going to be a part of the problem or the solution.

When things don't go so well with others, instead of getting so-called "revenge," I remind myself of something Hukuin Zenji said. "Sentient beings are primarily all Buddhas. It is like ice and water, Apart from water no ice can exist; Outside sentient beings, where do we find the Buddhas?"

Other people may not notice or understand that all beings are Buddha, but if we along do, that is enough. It only takes one of us to remember that this lifetime is about Buddha helping Buddha. What other purpose could we have? We have the capacity, the capacity, let me repeat the capacity to support and lift each other, up from the floor. Despite having the capacity, will we actually do that? Are we awake enough, to actualize This?

Namaste'

Jaye Morris, Curator
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