{"id":4315,"date":"2009-11-24T00:23:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T16:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=4315"},"modified":"2009-11-24T00:24:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T16:24:43","slug":"wonderland-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/11\/wonderland-dirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonderland Dirt!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From ‘Wonderland’, which is a spin-off story based on ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ by Tommy Kovac and Sonny Liew are some interesting dialogues –<\/em><\/p>\n

Feather: You’re late because you spent so much time bleaching, starching, and ironing this apron!
\nMary Ann: There was a spot!
\nFeather: It was a shadow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Comments: <\/strong>Some things, which protect other things from dirt, like aprons, are meant to be dirtied, such that a speck of dirt on them is perfectly alright. More difficult to clean than dirt that stick fast, is illusory dirt. Our Buddha-nature is that which cannot be cleaned because it cannot be sullied. We just need to clear the dust of defilements that shrouds our vision of our Buddha-nature.<\/p>\n

Mary Ann: Tch! Tch! This path is so dirty!
\nFeather: That’s because it’s a dirt path!<\/span><\/p>\n

Comments: <\/strong>Better to keep the mind clean than to demand this world of dust (Samsara) to be speckless like a Pureland. Yet, when the mind is pure, the land is pure.<\/p>\n

Feather: Well, I’m tired of sweeping other people’s grime and grit away!
\nMary Ann: You’re a feather duster. You can’t be something other than what you are…
\nButterfly: That is incorrect.<\/span><\/p>\n

Comments: <\/strong>What’s more challenging than clearing others’ dirt is to clean one’s own, that hides one’s Buddha-nature. The more one focuses on cleaning others, the less one focuses on cleaning oneself. A cleaner can always do something other than cleaning others, by cleaning oneself. In fact, a cleaner that is truly clean can best help clean others.<\/p>\n

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