[DWS-news] Fw: Tricycle thoughts

[Angela Parrish]

Dear Friends,
Please see John Daugirda's note below regarding the nice daily dharma 
email offered on Tricycle.com.

Angie

Here is a great reference site – 
Tricycle.com offers a free e-newsletter and a daily dharma email.  It is a 
great way to wake up.  For example, Thich Nhat Hanh offers today’s thought 
-- 
 
 
After you wake up you probably open the curtains and look outside. You may 
even like to open the window and feel the cool morning air with the dew 
still on the grass. But is what you see really "outside"? In fact, it is 
your own mind. As the sun sends its rays through the window, you are not 
just yourself. You are also the beautiful view from your window. You are 
the Dharmakaya.

Dharmakaya literally means the body (kaya) of the Buddha's teachings 
(Dharma), the way of understanding and love. Before passing away, the 
Buddha told his disciples, "Only my physical body will pass away. My 
Dharma body will remain with you forever." In Mahayana Buddhism, the word 
has come to mean "the essence of all that exists." All phenomena--the song 
of a bird, the warm rays of the sun, a cup of hot tea--are manifestations 
of the Dharmakaya. We, too, are of the same nature as these wonders of the 
universe.


--Thich Nhat Hanh, Present Moment, Wonderful Moment
from Everyday Mind, edited by Jean Smith, a Tricycle book



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