..续本文上一页ve the smallness and the obnoxiousness, we might say, of sangha; dealing with the dailiness, dealing with those petty difficulties that always arise when we have to live with others. If we have the equanimity and the insight here, how much richer and deeper it is. Practising together.

　　A Sung dynasty teacher called Kuan-lin looked unhappy and worried. One of his many, many students came to him and said, "What”s going on

　　 You look a little disturbed." Kuan-lin said "Well, I haven”t found anyone yet to be the accountant." The student wanted to help, and recommended the assistant superintendent. The teacher said, "Yes, he”s pretty good, but not quite right, I think. He”s a little rough, and I”m afraid petty people might resent him and intrigue against him and say he didn”t deserve it." So the student said "How about the attendant

　　 He”s honest and prudent." Kuan-lin said, "Yes, he”s prudent, but it might not be good for his training. The supervisor is pretty good, and I”m still thinking about it." Later the students asked another teacher, "Why did Kuan-lin, who was a great teacher, worry about these small and petty things

　　" The other teacher said, "Those who are really concerned about the Way have really made this fundamental. The ancient sages are like this. We must be concerned with everything in the dharma; we must let our compassion run to everything in the universe."

　　In sesshin you manifest the compassion of the dharma; you call on the name of Avalokiteshvara just by the sincerity of your zazen. That sincerity is sufficient. Each moment we come back to the freshness, and it really does not matter what the moment before was, how stale it felt, or how weary, or how far away from the name of Avalokiteshvara. We must have that willingness to call on it at this moment and realise that when we do call on it, this moment fills eternity. There is nothing else in the universe. These hills and the birds and the great wind in the trees: all are the calling of Avalokiteshvara. And then we create the conditions by which the moon rises. We do not make it happen; the moon rises of ins own without the help of human hands. All we need to do is call on the name of Avalokiteshvara over and over again.

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