Trees, Snow and Red Fox

Trees, Snow and Red Fox

By Tt

1/7/2020

at Virginia home

(A)

“Come on! Dance with us”

Said the snow to the trees so passionately.

“We done with excitement.

We are meditating on the peace and tranquility.”

Politely replied the trees.

“Look at me, I am neither attached to the peace nor to the excitements.

I am simply enjoying my independence and

Seeking for some food to appreciate the life.”

Shouted the red fox who paused, looked at me and then passed by my house.

(B)

Upon heard the above dialogues,

I thought to myself, what about me,

A man who sees all these scenes?

Here, I am seemly being broken into all three great core aspects of life.

I would love to dance like snow in the wood that I watch very affectionately,

But I absolutely need meditation to see my ultimate ontological reality;

Believed or not,

At the same time,

I have to depend on and consume the food-

The source of my physical strength.

(C)

The irony is,

I am neither snow,

Nor trees,

Nor that of cute red fox.

I can’t stand still and straight upward like the trees outside my windows

Because the wind of my Karma strikes me the day and night

Like the winter storms expostulating in the great Changtang plateau in Tibet.

I also can’t dance spontaneously like the snow

Because I haven’t yet merged with that of my primordial state of self-arising pure awareness.

(D)

Let me make it clear,

The imperturbable restfulness gently pushed by

The divine hands of great bliss

Is the true nature of my own mind.

Alas,

This most sacred and sublime universal quality of my own,

Is currently got lost in the face of all kinds of sensory appearance

That is tightly surrounding me now.

Sadly or luckily,

I also can’t randomly walk in the woods in snow like that of red fox.

(D)

Oh well, at this point,

I welcome you the red fox laugh at me a loud.

I know many times

I am almost doing nothing better than you-

Consider by us human beings as “animal”.

But, my dear red fox,

No matter how poor my performances are

And how petty and low I am now;

Because I have heard one thing that you probably not heeded yet

Which definitely reshaped me to be someone

Who is greatly more privileged than you do,

Eventually,

That one thing:

The noble truth I have heard in this life.

Even can enable me to be the one who is more worth than I, myself now,

Similarly, by the grace of that very exalted truth

I will surely do better than that of trees in the snow

And the snows slid down from the haven inviting the trees for dancing.

(E)

In fact,

That very one gracious truth has been nourishing me,

One day, would superbly transform me into the state of being:

Where I will be fully endowed with the steadiness of the trees

Sustained by the great passion of altruistic dance displayed by the snow.

I even can more proudly to announce that

Because of that one decisive ultimate truth:

The realization of my true nature as rigpa or gnosis, the divine spark within humanity.

I can freely walking around and going through the woods of samsara in the snow of karma

However, unlike the red fox, I will do it without seeking food just for myself But merely for the sake of all sentient beings!