64/108 Gates of Dharma Illumination

[Shokai]

The Sixty-fourth Gate

The power of effort is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we do not regress or stray.

Power of Effort :
great or marked ability to make an earnest or strenuous attempt

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gassho, Shokai
stlah

[Seikan]

Not forward or back
Striving hard
To stay where we are


Gassho,
Seikan

-stlah-

[Nengei]

Belief, wisdom, balance, mindfulness, effort...
How much easier, these
Strenuous tasks seem, their
Arduousness laid to rest, when
Taken together as one, in
Right thought and right action.

Gassho,
Nengei
Sat today. LAH.

[Shokai]

Gassho, Shokai
stlah