Inspiration Comes Above

Inspiring You By Showing

How ALL Life Is Inclusive

There is a very touching story to by Suzuki Roshi, a zen master at the Zen Center in San Francisco several years ago that I will never forget.

On his visit to Yosemite National Park, Suzuki views this huge waterfall coming down over this cliff. He notices that it is one river at the top of this cliff. But as the water falls, the river breaks up into these individual droplets and then it hits the bottom of the cliff and it becomes one river again.

"We" are all one river until we hit this cliff. That distance between the top of the cliff and the bottom of the cliff represents our life. And all the individual little droplets think they really are individual little droplets until they hit the bottom and then they are gone.

But that droplet doesn't lose anything.

It gains. It gains the rest of the river.

Find The Joy In Your Life

Our Lives are streams flowing into the same river towards whatever heaven lies in the mist Beyond the Falls.
Close your eyes and let the waters take you home.