Final Pre-Chomon Reflections....

as my last post before i fly out on thursday i'd like to share a quote taken from Ashvaghosa's The Awakening of Faith. it feels, to my mind, particularly significant held under the light of everything i've experienced over the past year and is something i'd like to hold in mind as i undergo Chomon. see you at the end of the month.

All beings since their first aspiration till the attainment of Buddhahood are sheltered under the guardianship of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who, responding to the requirements of the occasion, transform themselves and assume the actual forms of personality.

Thus for the sake of all beings Buddhas and Bodhisattvas become sometimes their parents, sometimes their wives and children, sometimes their kinsmen, sometimes their servants, sometimes their friends, sometimes their enemies, sometimes reveal themselves as devas or in some other forms.

namu amida butsu