With grace and deep compassion, Maria Habito offers us a beautiful story of deliverance from exile. Like the Israelites being in bondage in Egypt, we are all in some kind of prison, even if it is a palace. “For even a palace has walls,” she reminds us. Drawing on the story of Shakyamuni Buddha from the Transmission of Light, by Master Keizan, we can appreciate the consonance of the deliverance from bondage with the Buddha’s enlightenment. Like the story of Jesus’ resurrection which was accomplished for all beings and all time, the enlightenment of Shakyamuni Buddha was also for all beings throughout time. “I and all beings on earth together attain enlightenment at the same time.”
