<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Yoshizen&#039;s Blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[yoshizen]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/author/yoshizen/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Why Practice ?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Once Master Dogen wrote &#8221; If we were born with the Dharma, why all the</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Holy Masters in the history needed to practice hard to attain Enlightenment ?&#8221;</strong></span></p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;-well, he was young then.</p>
<p>Has been born with Dharma, but to able to see it, is the different matter.</p>
<p>We still need to practice to eliminate all sorts of destructive delusions and</p>
<p>thoughts, in order  to see invisible Dharma.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;-in here, me to use the word &#8221; see &#8221; was a metaphor.</p>
<p><strong>We never able to see the Dharma itself. Like the gravity, we see</strong></p>
<p><strong>an apple falling but not the gravity itself. What we can see is only in</strong></p>
<p><strong>its effect, as a revelation.</strong></p>
<p>So far, what I found other than intricacy of the existences but something</p>
<p>peculiar is, when something completely out of blue, with a sheer coincidence,</p>
<p>yet still it could affect one&#8217;s life has happened, I believe it is an</p>
<p>intervention of the Dharma.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; If you reading this just by chance, you to encounter this, could be</p>
<p>the intervention of the Dharma, by which you might have crucial study</p>
<p>of the Buddhism by seeing the Truth, otherwise a sample of sheer Misunderstanding.</p>
<p>( which ever the case you may find)</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>Me to start this blog site was a pure coincidence.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t have such intention at all.</p>
<p>On the beginning, I met a man working for BBC at an art exhibition , who</p>
<p>suggested me to see a Buddhist blog site which I did..</p>
<p>And, in order to put my comment, I needed to register to the WordPress.</p>
<p>By doing so just lightheartedly, my blog site was created in the same time.</p>
<p>( I don&#8217;t have web-site to publicize, and never joined Facebook, Myspace</p>
<p>kind of SNS, even though I was a well known photographer before)</p>
<p>Once it was created, I have to take care of it in my best.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>What ever happened or who ever comes, I have to deal with it as a duty</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>without any thought, since it was not my plan, but it was given.</strong></span></p>
<p>As I don&#8217;t think about too much to start, neither think about its</p>
<p>consequence. Since it was given by the Dharma, it must be a</p>
<p>part of my fate.</p>
<p>So that, if its turned out to be good, Congratulation, if not, cry.</p>
<p>( But so far I only having had very interesting kind of life, without getting</p>
<p>any ill / I still don&#8217;t have GP even after 34 years in England. &#8212;&#8211;whether</p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>it was thanks to the Buddhism or just lucky, I don&#8217;t know, neither care </strong></span>)</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212; In this aspect, Buddhist is a fatalist (or at least I am )</p>
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