More On the Heart Sutra:
The Bodhisattva of Compassion….
Buddhists have a persistent difficulty with the Particular and the Universal. When we consider Avalokiteśvara/ dynamic full functioning/ dependent origination, we tend to make a picture of something vast, and lurch between that and our particularity now.
It was for this reason, I suspect, that Okumura said that practice was the five skandas seeing the emptiness of the five skandas.
We start with this experience, this particularity, this now, and it floods out everywhere, because it is unconstrained by the bell jar of the self.