Lotus and stinking mud.

 
The Vietnamese folk songs have questions: In what dress with beautiful lotus green leaves, white flowers, yellow pistil chen green leaves, white flowers, yellow pistil nearby mud that does not stink of mud. Great reviews of all knives are praising the beauty of cotton lotus springing up between mud fishy but retain ethereal beauty. Just as people living in the quagmire that idea but still a pure soul. long, in the consciousness of the people of Vietnam, the lotus is a symbol of dignity and nobility. But one thing I want to mention here: If no stinking mud sen data may shed fragrance is that? Because only blossoming lotus in summer and fall seasons. Weather has certain advantages and showers can not be developed in a place other than the dress much mud mud. The other is stinking mud nutrients for growing flowers, flowers pure beauty between earth and sky. If someone intends to bring the plant where the shower water, I can not believe how beautiful flower flowers are inherent. So affordable long we forget, only shower praises rise from the mud, but do not remember what to nourish the flowers of mud pretty fishy. Mud require anything fishy, ​​just quietly raised the flowers to admire and praise life, only to be forgotten life, as an unclean thing besides the beautiful lotus flower. If the divine is soaring up from the dark, then we should have the dark to discern the divine. Due to the characteristics of the sludge fishy, ​​it's just a material to nourish the soul noble sen. We admire a beautiful lotus flower, we see them harmonize the colors to look her straight leaning, We admired the beauty that ... but we also noticed, things are not always constant but change, beautiful lotus now but will wither on the day and the day after that ... and over time it becomes disintegrated, fell into the mud fishy, ​​fishy turn into mud, the essential nutrients for other lotuses grow and tribute for life. Does this new time is when the other lotus completed its responsibility to appear on the dress? Do not just be consecrated life, survival was sacrificed, to live is to bring something useful for life ? We have always seen the transformation of things to take it in every perception, for whatever birth or lost we were calmly received, observed by eye meditation. Our mind is also from that which soared, soared from rich sediments from the breath and love, from the gentle loving tolerance of mother earth. END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=THE EIGHTFOLD PATH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.10/2/2015.