I am studying the sixteen bodhisattva precepts.
In the program in which I'm enrolled, we have to write glosses on each of the precepts. "[P]ut your reflections into a gloss, usually a paragraph on each precept, though it can become a creative project, as well." So I created "dharma gates" to represent each of the precepts.
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The Three Treasures are in blue. The Three Tenets (Pure Precepts) are in red. The Ten Mindfulness Practices are in yellow.
Marks-A-Lot permanent marker on Montana Black spray paint on cardboard. Japanese kanji on labels.
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Dharmas are boundless; I vow to comprehend them.
Reality is boundless; I vow to perceive it.
The third of the four Bodhisattva/All-Embracing Vows, in three translations/expressions: (1) Sonoma Mountain Zen Center; (2) Kazuaki Tanahashi; (3) Upaya Zen Center.
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I don't regard my life
as insufficient.
Inside the brushwood gate
there is a moon;
there are flowers.
—the poet Ryōkan, translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi
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