While sketching the heron and Kawasemi (April 23 post), I met a person with photos of all sorts of birds on her cell. The next time I saw her, we got to talk of spiritual things. Could we talk again, she asked.
Takako told me then she was born into a militant Buddhist family and was versed in its doctrines, but got disillusioned with a questionable leader, left the group, and joined a different sect.
Takako believes man cannot find God any more than a turtle, blind in one eye, can find a floating log. The Bible also teaches no man can come to the Way, the Truth, and the Life, except the Father draw him.
Did that log not extend a BRANCH to that turtle and tap it on its shell? How it responds...is up to him.
