Introduction

Tori Senji's Bodhisattva as Vah is one of the sutras in our sutras service. It begins, when I regard the true nature of all things and all living creatures, I find them to be the sacred forms of the Tori Senji's never failing essence. Even if someone is abusive to you, even that is a manifestation of the takkata. We're at the same right from the very beginning that we worship the pleasant and the comfortable, but we don't want to include the unpleasant. This dovetail seemed really well with Joko's prose about the cocoon of pain.