Birds in the Heart - Planting Seeds

"Bodhisattvas fear the cause; sentient beings fear the effect,
"This is the reason why Bodhisattvas take great care
to plant only the seeds of virtue and wisdom.
If a sentient being, after arriving at the splendid pure land
of the Buddha realms, lives day after day just
"waiting and expecting,"
not diligently planting and cultivating,
and counting on the harvest to fall from the sky,
then I believe that what he will gain can only be
dejection and disappointment.