According to Buddha
It is very good to recite the mantra Om mani padme hum, but while you are doing it, you should be thinking on its meaning, for the meaning of the six syllables is great and vast.
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a day or so ago Edmonton City Hall ~ Etown ~ Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ August 2021
According to Buddha
Surely there is a window from heart to heart:
they are not separate and far from each other.
Two earthenware lamps are not joined,
but their light is mingled as it moves.
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glass windows a few days back in the town of Morinville, AB ~ July 2021
According to Buddha
Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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a week ago St. Jean Baptiste Catholic Church 5 days later the church was destroyed by fire ~ Morinville, AB ~ June 2021
According to Buddha
You hide me in your cloak of nothingness. Reflect my ghost in your glass of being. I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream. Where your eternity briefly trembles.
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a week ago Ocean Park, South Surrey, BC ~ June 2021
According to Buddha
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor…Welcome and entertain them all.
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a day ago in the town of Morinville, AB ~ June 2021
According to Buddha
I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn’t create more suffering.
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walking a day or so ago in White Rock, BC ~ June 2021
According to Buddha
The end is another beginning.
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blue stairs a few weeks or months ago ~ Granville Island Public Market ~ Vancouver BC~ May 2021
According to Buddha
Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript of a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.
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a day or so ago at John Walter’s 1875 house ~ Etown ~ Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ May 2021
According to Buddha
Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.
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a day or so ago Legislature Annex building + Legislative Assembly of Alberta ~
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