Don't get caught in decorations

Sekiso wrote:

The dharma spring
has never run dry;
if is flowing even now.
A single drop has fallen and spread
far and deep.
Don't be caught
by the decorations at the edge
and the wall around it.
In the dead of the night the moon shines
from the middle of the pond.

What Sekiso is saying is very symbolic. The dharma spring -- the spring when those who are ripe become suddenly full of flowers, when the dark night ends and the morning has come -- The dharma spring has never run dry. He is saying, "Remember, the dharma spring has never run dry; it always comes, just as it used to come in Gautam Buddha's time, or even before." It is part of eternal nature. It is just that you have to be ready to catch the train. The train always comes, but mostly either you reach the railway station before the train has come, or you reach after the train has left -- you always find an empty platform. Sad and frustrated, you go back home.

The dharma spring has never run dry. It always is available; just you are not ready. The whole responsibility has to be taken by you, on your own shoulders. The existence is as much in favor of buddhas as it has always been, but you are not even looking at it. You are not preparing, you are not even witnessing so that when it comes... In fact, it never comes, it is always there -- YOU come to IT. The deeper your witnessing, and suddenly you find a tremendous reality flooding you. In your very innermost center it is still waiting.

The dharma spring has never run dry; if is flowing even now. A single drop has fallen and spread far and deep. The ocean of dharma spring is always ready to absorb you; it has always space for you, you are always welcome. Nobody has been rejected by dharma nature. If even a single drop has fallen, it has spread all over the ocean, far and deep.

be caught by the decorations at the edge and the wall around it. In the dead of the night the moon shines from the middle of the pond. We are all attracted by decorations, by the non-essentials. A lake may have a wall around it with beautiful statues, sculpture, architectural designs. And you may get so much involved in those decorations that you fail to see that the pond is reflecting the moon, exactly in the middle. This is just symbolic. It is saying that the existential truth is always shining in the middle of this whole world of decorations. Power, all kinds of desires, motivations, longings -- amongst this whole crowd, exactly in the middle, exactly in the center of your being, the full moon is reflected. Don't get caught in decorations.