According to Buddha
You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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public art + remember/ing ~ Highway of Tears, at Tete Jaune Cache ~ June 2020
also see ❤️
The REDress Project by Jaime Black❤️
Red Dress Photography Project by Mufty Mathewson❤️
number of solar days in the mean tropical year by Hedy Bach
According to Buddha
There’s a mess inside you:
You clean the outside.
why don’t you ask him if he’s going to stay?
why don’t you ask him if he’s going away?
why don’t you tell me what’s going on?
why don’t you tell me who’s on the phone?
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little things along the way ~ Etown ~ June 2020
According to Buddha
Don’t treat yourself so gingerly; you can let go of stuff. Sometimes it takes three breaths instead of two to do it, but you can do it. Be a little tougher and don’t cling to stuff. People go around carrying everybody’s stuff all of the time. I just pick it up and put it down. Pick it up and put it down.
right now, right now
love is everywhere
right now, right now
love is everywhere
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delicious sunshine + dead flora ~ study in art room Etown ~ April 2020
According to Buddha
The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
man overboard man overboard
stop this world from turning
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otter Edmonton Zoo ~ February 2020
According to Buddha
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.
i’m a wonderful shadow
whose sweetness is brief
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formal study eggs by candle light ~ art room Etown ~ January 2020
According to Buddha
Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.
nobody can tell ya;
there’s only one song worth singin’,
they may try and sell ya,
’cause it hangs them up to see someone like you.
but you’ve gotta make your own music
sing your own special song,
make your own kind of music even if nobody else sings along.
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sand East Beach ~ White Rock, BC ~ February 2020
According to Buddha
When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?
threading
the glacier head
looking hard for
moments of shine
from twilight
to twilight
utter mundane
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Blue Hokkaido Pumpkin (Winter Pumpkin) ~ Holden Colony Produce ~ December 2019
According to Buddha
But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.
brosandi
hendumst í hringi
höldumst í hendur
allur heimurinn óskýr
nema þú stendur
rennblautur
allur rennvotur
engin gúmmístígvél
hlaupandi í okkur ?
vill springa út úr skel
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walk in the woods ~ Etown ~ December 2019
According to Buddha
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
flying and you know i’m not coming down
you’re trying but you know you must soon go down
all my colours turn to clouds
all my colours turn to clouds
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rocks at a rock workshop ~ Etown ~ December 2019
According to Buddha
Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.
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Jellies ~ Vancouver Aquarium ~ November 2019
