Bodhi Leaves - Offerings and Reflections from the Buddhist West

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Covering the World

Where would there be leather enough to cover the entire world?
The earth is covered over merely with the leather of my sandals.

-Shantideva in 'A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life' (Ch. 5, v.13). Translated by Vesna and B. Alan Wallace.

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