Mind of Clover

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The bodhisattva's mind is the mind of clover — small leaves, intricate, modest, useful, growing in places no one chose. Be useful in the unchosen places.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Robert Aitken

Lineage: Sanbo-Zen

By Robert Aitken

• The Precepts Are Aliveproverb
• Intimate with All Thingsproverb
• On Engaged Buddhism and the Bodhisattva Pathsaying
• On the Practice of Precepts as Koanssaying
• Precepts as Practiceproverb

From The Mind of Clover

• The Precepts Are Alive
• On the Practice of Precepts as Koans

Sources

• contentThe Mind of Clover: Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics

  Robert Aitken