According to Buddha
This is how we love, Buddha-style:
impartial to all, free from excessive attachment or false hope and expectation;
accepting, tolerant, and forgiving.
Buddhist nonattachment doesn’t imply complacence or indifference, or not having committed relationships or being passionately engaged with society, but rather has to do with our effort to defy change and resist the fact of impermanence and our mortality. By holding on to that which in any case is forever slipping through our fingers, we just get rope burn.
they, said some day you’ll find
all who love are blind
when your heart’s on fire
you must realize
smoke gets in your eyes
***
Baltimore, Maryland ~ random street ~ June 2015.
Just beautiful, Hedy. You really spent some time in Baltimore. ☺ Van
awe thanks kindly Van 😀 i had a fascinating time there…curiouser and curiouser…happy day to you!
Great set, Hedy…The steam rising up really caught my eye.
thanks Chris…we don’t have steam here so i find my eye also catches it…and it was also rather hot. 😀 happy wednesday!
You were smart to catch it. Happy Wednesday. 😀
been photographing at the rodeo 😎☺️ been a great day!
A rodeo…OMG, that sounds like so much fun. I never thought to do that. I can’t wait to see the images. I hope you’ll post them . =)
i will do another rodeo post…but i just did a post about the rainmaker rodeo http://sloppybuddhist.com/2015/05/31/363/…yesterday’s rodeo was at different levels…and i didn’t have a media pass so a different experience for me too…always educative nonetheless 😀 happy day to you Chris 😀
great series! moments frozen in time.. ..and a great idea with the steam! 🙂 Like that. Have a nice day!
but not freezing at all…humid and hot…it’s unlike the streets of Edmonton ☺️ thanks Markus and yes today is a holiday for Canada’s 148th birthday!
..of course, Hedy, ..not literally frozen .. 🙂 ..but you captured it for us!
All the best for your great CANADIANS!!! …Hedy, not kidding and not paying less respect to any other nation… ..but ALL canadians I met in my life where great, down to earth, hearty and nice people!!! Cheers to you all!! STAY AS YOU ARE !!!
EH, cheers to you all, Markus
….uuh, yes.. and of course thank you for THE BAND, NEIL YOUNG and the COWBOY JUNKIES (I saw them once in Germany.. ..unforgetable!)
enjoy the day! 🙂
all fine works…and yes the cowboy junkies i love! happy evening Markus 😀 i like this one a lot….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zufpr8BwY9U
…thank you for the link. This one was blocked but I could opened another with misguide angel. – ‘Witches’ is my favorite!
Have a wonderful day, Hedi! 🙂
now i’m listening to you planted it my mind as i do a few photo edits here 😀
..oh, the album is blocked, but I put it on the cd player because I got the caution horses album. Btw, it was one of my first CD ever which I bought 25 y.a. 🙂 Lets enjoy the music together now! 🙂
always blocked strange in 2105 but yes I’ve got the CD on ☺️ 2x then that’s enough edits now outside time 😎 playing with cameras 😀
..it’s this copyright thing! But its okay… …at least I have the cd and the memories from the concerts! 🙂 …wish you an inspiring time with music while editing… 🙂
thank you Markus…i enjoy this part of the photography process too…happy friday! 😀
Love it. So true. The closest I see to this kind of love is the one one gets from animals. I rarely see it in humans.
TheUberbook.com is building a ‘love’ gallery I have recommended this post. Check out the LIFE STUFF galleries, request an add via the writers form if you’d like this post to be on there. You get my vote although I don’t have a say on whether you are eventually added.
The Ed.
thanks kindly Ed and yes I agree i know that unconditional love from my critters and yes often rare in ‘beings’ but possible ☺️ and thank you for the connection I will look and check it out for sure! smiles ~ hedy 😀
Excellent stuff. Would be good to hear the Buddhist voice on the galleries.
and a little sloppy too ☺️ thank you kindly Ed 😀
To be fair, apart from the big guy himself, (the DL) plus a few other key voices, I think that’s what gives you the edge. ‘Sloppy’ gives us a very human interpretation which personally I quite like. 🙂
what an amazing photo.
‘nonattachment’ 🙂
😀 happy evening to you Gavin! thank you ~ smiles hedy
That last sentence is absolutely brilliant — perfect imagery.
thank you Penny…appreciate you saying 😀 happy day photographing to you too!
Fantastic images in b/w.
thanks kindly Bob…appreciate you saying…happy day to you!