I think Reeves did a good job grounding things here.
Some loose thoughts of my own:
The countless buddhas in all directions did not really feel supernatural to me. More like countless beings and countless “worlds of experience,” if that makes any sense.
And the idea that Shakyamuni Buddha died long ago and is still somehow alive reminded me a little of my grandmother. She died years ago, but when I cook one of her recipes, something of her is still there. Not literally, but not entirely gone either.
So my first feeling here is that if we keep “cooking the Dharma” by actually living it, as Reeves suggests, then Shakyamuni is, in a way, right there with us.
That was the feeling I was left with while reading.
Gasshō,
Tenryū
sat&lah
Some loose thoughts of my own:
The countless buddhas in all directions did not really feel supernatural to me. More like countless beings and countless “worlds of experience,” if that makes any sense.
And the idea that Shakyamuni Buddha died long ago and is still somehow alive reminded me a little of my grandmother. She died years ago, but when I cook one of her recipes, something of her is still there. Not literally, but not entirely gone either.
So my first feeling here is that if we keep “cooking the Dharma” by actually living it, as Reeves suggests, then Shakyamuni is, in a way, right there with us.
That was the feeling I was left with while reading.
Gasshō,
Tenryū
sat&lah
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