A tiny awakening

A company Japan House in Moscow invited me as a speaker in the fall 2017. I spoke on ‘Zen culture and the drawing of Zen’. A lady asked me a question after the lecture.

‘What does Buddhas enlightenment mean?’

I answered her. 

‘The Buddhas enlightenment has profound contents, so, I have nothing qualification to talk about it. But we have a chance of a tiny awakening in our usually life. Do you have a family or children? You had the difficulty to giving birth to a baby. But you are very happy with it. Childcare works hard and needs to be much worried. By way of such an experience you can understand the hardship of your mother. When you were young, you took a rebellious attitude toward your mother, don’t you? For the first time, you realized how much you owed to your parents. It was your tiny awakening. It is important to learn Buddha’s teaching through such experiences.

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