The Buddha in Mind

    Su Dongpo(a famous Chinese poet  in Song Dynasty (960--1279)) and Foyin are good friends. Once when they sat looking at each other, Dongpo asked Foyin,

   “What have you seen?”

    Foyin answered he saw the Buddha and asked the same, but Dongpo replied he saw the cow dung.

    Thinking that it’s a great win over Foyin of the wits Battle, Dongpo, riding high home, told his sister Su of it, but out of his expectation, having heard about that, she, shaking her head, sighed,

    “You’ve got a big loss!”

    Since Dongpo was reduced in puzzlement, she explained,

    “that ‘s because you’ll see what takes root in your mind; there exists Buddha in Foyin’s, so his eyes are set on it, but in yours…...”

    What exists in my heart? And What I'll see? If what we catch are the people full of flaws and without a single redeeming feature, we shouldn’t lay the blame on them; what’s more, that’s probably our real mind; if what we note are those, rosy, active and worthy of our love and respect, it shows that we are the true of them.
    The stand and fall are all decided by our own mind; so long as there lives a Buddha in your mind, there opens a way in your eyes------