The Buddha and Clouds
The largest picture the nature presents to every member of the mankind so clearly and unconditionally is clouds.
They change their forms, shapes, colors, sizes, and movement incessantly. They each occupy a certain location in the great canvas of the sky taking any position to one another.
So, the Buddha said: life is like clouds and it never stops changing.
How many clouds have ever been produced by God since the creation of this world?
But, one thing for sure is that He must remember every cloud, from the instant and tiny one to a great one which covers the whole plain or mountains. So, then God must memorize every movement of the mind and body of each of us in a time series. We may die but He never loses every information on us. Indeed, He must have power to recreate each of us like He can create any of past clouds that has ever appeared above the ground and the sea.
The Buddha is not the creator of clouds; he is not the creator of the life of any human being. But He must be able to see something in change in clouds we cannot simply see. As a creature we may be more concerned with the Buddha naturally if God is too great and in a sense so horrible.
So, clouds are between the blue sky and the earth or the ocean, which may be a domicile of a true Buddhist.
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Tonight, in Japan Time, the Japanese female soccer team lost a game against the German national team in the final of the Algarve Cup held in Portugal: 3 - 4.
Germany cannot send its female team to the London Olympic Games as it lost a match against Japan in the Female World-Cup Soccer Game held last spring. So, it can be even as Japan won the US in this series of matches by 1-0 to meet Germany in today's final.
The Algarve Cup
FINAL TEAM PLACEMENTS:
1st: Germany
2nd:Japan
3rd: USA
4th: Sweden
5th: Denmark
6th: Iceland
7th: Norway
8th: Wales
9th: China PR
10th:Portugal
11th: Republic of Ireland
12th: Hungary
Joh 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.