According to Buddha
Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives from music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody.
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a week ago Calgary Tower ~ Calgary, otôskwanihk (ᐅᑑᐢᑿᓂᕽ) ~ January 2022
According to Buddha
Do not accept any of my words on faith,
Believing them just because I said them.
Be like an analyst buying gold, who cuts, burns,
And critically examines her product for authenticity.
Only accept what passes the test
By proving useful and beneficial in your life.
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a week ago Calgary Public Library, ~ Calgary, otôskwanihk (ᐅᑑᐢᑿᓂᕽ) ~ January 2022
According to Buddha
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place
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reflections of yesterday at Manchester Square Edmonton Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ + streets of Amsterdam 2018 ~ December 2021
According to Buddha
…Each one of us lacks one thing or another. I am not exactly sure what we lack, but I can feel we lack something. In the West, even if at the moment you are going through a crisis, you actually have everything, or at least you think you do; all kinds of material goods are there, and are no doubt distributed better than they were in the past. But it seems to me that you are living in a constant state of tension, in an atmosphere of never-ending competitiveness and fear. And those who are brought up in such an atmosphere will find themselves lacking all their lives: they will not know that wonderful quality of depth and intimacy that is the richness of life. They will stay on the surface of the troubled sea, without ever knowing the calm that lies beneath.
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a week or so ago walking my iPhone in the backlanes ~ Etown ~ Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ December 2021
According to Buddha
Look at appearance-emptiness forms, Listen to sound and emptiness sounds, Rest in mind's nature, clarity-emptiness, And when your thoughts free themselves, Laugh, oh laugh "Ha ha! Hee hee!
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water tower a couple of weeks ago in Town Of Viking ~ Beaver County. ~ November 2021
According to Buddha
So resolve yourselves. It’s not just by sitting with your eyes closed that you develop wisdom. Eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind are constantly with us, so be constantly alert. Study constantly. Seeing trees or animals can all be occasions for study. Bring it all inwards. See clearly within your own heart. If some sensation makes impact on the heart, witness it clearly for yourself, don’t simply disregard it.
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a week ago ~ the Lund farm house ~ Dowling Lake ~ acknowledging Treaty 7 territory land ~ October 2021
According to Buddha
Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision.
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a day or so ago in Bruce ~ Beaver County ~ acknowledging Treaty 6 land, AB~ October 2021
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
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