According to Buddha
According to the logic of that old, deluded world, freedom means being at liberty to come and go as we please. Such a definition of freedom is often very useful to an oppressive regime. That is because freedom, if so defined, becomes something that can then be taken away. Tsunesaburo Makiguchi said no when offered his freedom because the offer itself was deluded. His captors, who thought they were free but in reality were the “thought prisoners” of an oppressive government and the victims of a degraded religious culture that had long since capitulated on the matter of basic human rights, therefore had nothing to offer him. He was free already.
are you a dancer in this world?
do you walk the sundance of life?
but all you wanted was to be…free
what i wanted was to be…me
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Royal Alberta Museum ~ Edmonton ~ March 2015
this great images go hand in hand with your words.
thanks kindly for saying Markus…’hand in hand’…also nice together…it’s a beautiful part of the museum…the details…hand work…i imagine they feel beautiful too 🙂 i love them.
I would like to see that museum. Two years ago I visited a museum on the Kamshatka peninsular in very east of Russia. At first I wondered why the traditional clothing’s were so similar to the once on your images. And then I realized that in former times the movement of tribes and people took place over the Bering Sea towards Alaska into North Amerika.
yes…of course…there are connections…the Museum is not without it contested issues…hopefully the new location will get the stories that need to be heard and seen…here is a little piece…
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/royal-alberta-museum-in-dispute-over-aboriginal-consultations-1.2677492
thanks for your comment Markus 😀
Thank you for the link! C U
Thank you…yes I’ll visit your intriguing blog….smiles happy day to you 😃
Thank you! Wish you a nice and sunny easter weekend! 🙂
PS: you know this images where you look at and then you look a second time and you see something completely different?! ..it seems to me like this with your gravatar image. The first times it seems to be your left eye and you look straight into the camera. But know it looks like it’s your right eye which looks at something a little bit left above the camera. 🙂
yes you are “right” you also have an eye…very fine ☺️ happy night! 😉
same to you 🙂
looking forward to your CCCXLVII post!
Yes Sunday 😉 happy day 😄
Fabulous.
thanks kindly for saying 😀 compose a happy day Van.
SUPER!
well that’s so nice to know…super is very super 😀 thank you!
‘That is because freedom, if so defined, becomes something that can then be taken away.’
how true.
yes…lingers for me…but who knows it’s a quote 😉 thanks Gavin…compose a happy night!
Beautiful photos ~ and the take on freedom is refreshing, as there are too many elements in this world disguised as ‘freedoms’. True freedom is what we all aspire to, although some may not realize this ~
nothing is free…but yes i/we try 😀 thanks Randall for your kind words and time to look at my posts…appreciated 😀 compose a happy day!
Beautiful photos…and dance
yes the sundance is beautiful…thanks kindly for your comment Alex 😀 compose a happy day!