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Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week<br><br>
July 17, 2009<br><br>
SENTIENT BEINGS ARE LIMITLESS<br><br>
Sentient beings are limitless;<br>
We vow to save them.<br>
Maybe the world is filled with aggression, passion and ignorance<br>
And other inconvenient kleshas, inconvenient emotions.<br>
Still the dawn of sanity, and being skilled in working with others,<br>
Will continue.<br>
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Let us drive further,<br>
And work harder with gentleness,<br>
To proclaim the dharma, the wisdom of the Buddha,<br>
Throughout the universe.<br>
If practitioners are like the bow,<br>
Then devotion is like the bowstring.<br>
Working for others with intelligence <br>
Is the arrow, adorned with three feathers<br>
Of threefold purity,<br>
As well as the sharp point of doubtlessness.<br>
Thus we perform such archery.<br>
Let us go further, and shoot further.<br>
Let us shoot in the atmosphere of the dharmadhatu, the space of
dharma.<br>
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Excerpted, with slight changes, from "Sad Archer Shoots Happily by
Gazing at the Splendid Moon," an unpublished poem composed 14
November 1981 at the Keltic Lodge, Ingonish, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
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