The spring came specially early this year.  Strolling to the garden, surprisingly, I found tulips already sprouting out from the soil.  Looking at these little tulips that had gone through the cold winter, my heart was full of appreciation and joy of the life.  I bent down and covered those tulips with a layer of dry leaves and grasses, hoping that they would not be eaten by the deer and they will bloom beautifully in the future.

It was a good day for gardening.  I took out some gardening tools from the storage and thought about how to start.  The evergreen pine trees wore a bunch of furry leaves.  They looked quite different after the meticulous trimming.

Under the fallen leaves, I carefully searched the flowers roots grown last year and realized even more about the importance of "Watching the practice under each foot step".  I did not want to step on and ruin any living sprouts because of the lack of awareness in any moment.

Trimming, it gets rid of my bad habit.  Fertilizing, it adds more strength to my daily practice.  Who says that the realization of Buddha Dharma and experiencing of practice is not within the daily life?

A friend sent a CD to the temple.  It's a musical CD with beautiful melodies.  The name of the CD is Secret Garden.  After finishing up the work during the day, at night, I made a pot of tea and let the music of Secret Garden flow out softly with the full moon.

Inside everyone, there is a secret garden of the mind.  According to each individual's preferences, each one's garden of the mind is cultivated differently.  If we give plenty of sunshine, water and air, plus the coordination with good care, it will definitely turn into a perfuming and colorful flower garden.

A practitioner has available his wisdom as sunshine, compassion as water, and joyfully giving as air.  Be aware during the twenty-four hours of each day and take good care of each one's garden of the mind.  Let beautiful floweres bloom in the garden of the mind to benefit self and others.  Here I would like to share and encourage everybody with an advice from a great master.  "The weeds of ignorance should not grow in the garden of the mind and the flower of wisdom is always blooming in the enlightened garden."