The quest

It seems to me that most religions or life practices are about the quest. The search and sacrifice of finding the treasure, the holy grail, enlightenment.
The buddha's ultimate teaching, the lotus sutra, is the teaching of the mystic law. Like gravity, this is not a "rule" but a statement of how things work. Mystic because it is not necessarily easy to see or understand.
This teaching is deep and amazing. It moves us not from reality to enlightenment, but from enlightenment to reality. We wake up to our true self, our "buddha nature". And we bring that treasure, that enlightenment, back to our world, our reality, our family, and share and integrate it with daily life.
Turns out my practice is about the return, with the treasure that was mine all along.
How joyful. How wondrous.

Morning and evening

Go forth, woman!

My "guardian angel" does not so much protect me from danger as sing me forward, towards new adventure.