I've begun to chant the Daimoku {Nam Myoho Renge Kyo} and to learn the Gongyo.

As always, I'm journeying... experiencing the present and listening. Responding to the spirit "nudge" telling me to dig deeper into my practice. To connect with a Sangha.

For a long, long time I believed I'd somehow *stumbled* upon The Dharma Path and was an "accidental" Buddhist.

Sheesh! Could I have been more wrong?!

The Dharma saved me and finding the path was no accident — it was my destiny.

I think of how conflicted I was and how nothing in my life made sense. All the years I spent chasing "happiness" and "satisfication" outside myself, ONLY to return to the EXACT same place I'd started.

My soul was at war with — well, me.

Am I the perfect Buddhist today or the Bodhisattva I long to be? Hell no!:-)

I have a loonnnnggg way to go!

I prayed for a miracle.
I received a miracle.
Now with renewed purpose and ever awakening compassion, I MUST get BUSY!

A Buddha in progress... ♥

Luckie

{Aus·pi·cious [aw-spish-uhs]  – adjective 1.) promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion. 2.) favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate.}

Fear is nothing. The thing is courage.

~ Zulu Proverb via African Proverbs

A Buddha in progress... ♥

Luckie