Greatest Hits #4 - The Buddha is a Hoover - Celebrating Treeleaf's 15th

[Shoka]

Back in the heady days of 2012, Jundo reminded us that everything is the Buddha, not just our teachers and sacred images. Dōgen reminds us in Bendōwa that “grasses and trees, fences and walls, tiles and pebbles” all preach the Buddhadharma and everything is part of the One Bright Pearl.

If we use a rock or a flower as a representation of the Buddha, most people will understand that, but what about a modern electrical appliance? Can we see that as the Buddha?

So, for one night only (and, equally, the whole of space and time) our Buddha Rupa in Tsukuba became a vacuum cleaner to demonstrate that there is nothing in this world (and beyond) which is not sacred and nothing which is not totally ordinary.

As one Buddha ancestor (sort of) wrote:
“The Voices of the River Valley, and the Sounds of the Vacuum Cleaner, are the Buddha’s Wide and Long Tongue
The Form of the Mountain, and Curve of the Electric Cable, is nothing more than his Pure Body.”

Is there anything which is not the Buddha? This teaching points the way in Jundo’s own style we have come to know and love!

The original post can be found here:
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...eekly-Zazenkai


written by Kokuu

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