Buddha and Mara

[Jundo]

Re: Buddha and Mara

I think perhaps it is our dualistic delusions that create perfect saints and the miraculous Buddha. Since we are imperfect, they therefore must be perfect, because if they were like us there would be nothing to aspire to. And what are you left with when there is nothing to aspire to? Oh yeah, zen.

Endless bows. Thank you.

Of course, this 'Zen practice' is endless aspiring and striving to follow the path ... sometimes by endless bows. For all that we say there is "nothing to achieve" and "nothing in need of fixing", we can never give up either, and just let our self wallow in its greedy, angry, ignorant side.