One Rain Falls on Every Plant Alike
From one cloud falls the same rain, and each plant and tree takes it in to its own measure.
Rather than resenting that I do not receive the same as others, do I see that I receive to my own measure?
📝Reflection
Though the same rain falls, the great tree takes it as a great tree, the small herb as a small herb — each receiving enough to grow. The rain does not discriminate; only the vessels that receive differ. This parable from the Lotus consoles in two directions. One: good things in fact fall fairly on all — sunlight, rain, time come the same to everyone. The other: so it is not worth resenting that we do not receive the same as others. The small herb need not grieve for drinking less than the great tree. If it takes in enough for its own size and stays green, it is whole. Comparison makes no more rain fall. It is the eye that sees what my vessel is receiving now that makes me grow.
🌱Apply It Today
When comparison makes you resentful today, write "what am I receiving to my own measure?" The rain is fair; the growing is my part.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
