Re-Encountering the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua in China

Abstract

in every moment of every day, the Venerable master showed us by his example how to be a Bodhisattva. he was more than an abstract model; he was a down-to-earth, living, breathing person of compassion and clarity that radically changed for the better my life, those of my family, and those of countless other beings. Even now, ten years after his nirvana, i still have not let go of my preconceptions of who he was; i have not let go of my beloved images of him—both in my mind and on the walls of my home. yet it is not that i have not let go of him. Because in what was and is truly him, there was and is nothing that one could possibly grasp and hold on to. Except of course the Dharma that he embodied and taught, the Dharma that is ‘like unto a raft’ that can take us to the ‘other shore