According to Buddha
The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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red canoe ~ Father Lacombe Chapel ~ St. Albert ~ April 2021
According to Buddha
If you can’t smell the fragrance don’t come into the garden of love. If you’re unwilling to undress don’t enter into the stream of truth. Stay where you are. Don’t come our way.
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fish at the Granville Island Public Market ~ Vancouver BC ~ March 2021
According to Buddha
Understand the nature of impurity. If your key is bent, the lock will not open.
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Love Locks Statues, Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver BC ~ March 2021
According to Buddha
Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation.
Use it.
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crabapple squall wash day ~ leftovers from the 21-01-20 snow squall ~ Etown ~ Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ March 2021
According to Buddha
The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.
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book + feathers + sun ~ yesterday ~ Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ February 2021
According to Buddha
The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may hear the infallible counsel of the inner voice.
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-30 a day ago Deep Freeze: A Byzantine Winter Fete ~ Etown ~ Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ February 2021
According to Buddha
Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give this world and one another.
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a day ago ~ Big Al’s Edmonton ~ Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ February 2021
According to Buddha
In our culture we’ve been trained to make individual differences to stand out. You look at each person and think, ‘Brighter, dumber, older, younger, richer, poorer’ and we make all these dimensional distinctions, put them in categories and treat people that way. And we only see others as separate from ourselves. One of the dramatic characteristics of the psychedelic experience is being with another person and suddenly seeing the ways in which they are like you – not different from you.
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a day or so ago ~ outdoor fire ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ January 2021
According to Buddha
And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.
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a fresh day ago or so in/outside ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ December 2020
According to Buddha
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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like a river, a day or so ago ~ North Saskatchewan ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ December 2020
