The Sacred Lotus
This flower, this small and beautiful part of nature shows us our condition. It lives in the water, muddy water and manages to rise above not only the water but the mud. Neither the mud nor the water stick to the leaves or the petals of this magnificent plant.
It thrives in muddy, still water and roots itself into the muck below. The long stems rise through the water and the leaves sit directly on or above the water.
With its roots latched in mud, it submerges every night into river water and miraculously re-blooms the next morning, sparklingly clean.
How DO Lotus Flowers grow.
May we with all beings realize the emptiness of the three wheels,
giver, receiver and gift.
Author: Fashi Lao Yue
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