Touching the Earth (III)

Touching the Earth, I let go of my idea that I am this body and my life span is limited. [bell]
[all touch the earth]

I see that this body, made up of the four elements, is not really me and I am not limited by this body.

I am part of a stream of life of spiritual and blood ancestors
that for thousands of years has been flowing into the present
and flows on for thousands of years into the future.

I am one with my ancestors.
I am one with all people and all species,
whether they are peaceful and fearless, or suffering and afraid.

At this very moment, I am present everywhere on this planet.
I am also present in the past and in the future.

The disintegration of this body does not touch me,
just as when the plum blossom falls it does not mean the end of the plum tree.

I see myself as a wave on the surface of the ocean.
My nature is the ocean water.
I see myself in all the other waves and I see all the other waves in me.
The appearance and disappearance of the form of the wave does not affect the ocean.

My Dharma body and spiritual life are not subject to birth and death.
I see the presence of myself before my body manifested and after my body has disintegrated.
Even in this moment, I see how I exist elsewhere than in this body.

Seventy or eighty years is not my life span.
My life span, like the life span of a leaf or of a Buddha, is limitless.

I have gone beyond the idea that
I am a body that is separated in space and time from all other forms of life. [three breaths]
[bell]
[all stand up]

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