Does it make sense to you that when you see a flower, or when you see beauty, at that very moment you must be beauty? I hope so, because it means that beauty is not outside of yourself; you are beauty and you are truth. We can appreciate the beauty of a flower because we also feel its impermanence as our own. We can say we know that roses and thorns are as inseparable as night and day because it is no different with us. It is us. Therefore beholding the flower, or carefully holding the rose, we can treasure our own beauty and appreciate the evanescence of this fleeting life.
Excerpt of a talk given by Kwong Roshi.
Jakusho Kwong Roshi, successor in the lineage of Susuki Roshi, lives in Sonoma, California and is the author of a book written with Peter Levitt, NO BEGINNING, NO END: THE INTIMATE HEART OF ZEN, prefaced by Thich Naht Hanh and edited by Peter Levitt.
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