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
According to Buddha
In this moment there is nothing that comes to be. In this moment there is nothing that ceases to be. Thus there is no birth-and-death to be brought to an end. Thus the absolute peace in this present moment. Though it is at this moment, there is no limit to this moment, and herein lies eternal delight.
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trying to fix my grandmother’s clock ~ Etown December 2020
According to Buddha
If you wear shoeleather, the whole earth is covered with leather.
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Street art ~ Cowtown AB ~ September 2020
According to Buddha
Ultimately you live simultaneously in all of the planes of consciousness all the time, so that in a way, it’s like a vertical cut up – you look at somebody, they’re there; they’re not there.
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the little things ~ Western Development Museum ~ Moose Jaw, SK ~ a year or so ago.
According to Buddha
I don’t really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.
jump in, let’s go
lay back, enjoy the show
everybody gets high, everybody gets low,
these are the days when anything goes
everyday is a winding road
i get a little bit closer
everyday is a faded sign
i get a little bit closer to feeling fine
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on the way to the vegetable farm Carbondale, Alberta ~ August 2020
