According to Buddha
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
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early morning walk Crescent Beach, territory of the Semiahmoo First Nation ~ Surrey BC ~ August 2021
According to Buddha
Do not leave me,
hide in my heart like a secret,
wind around my head like a turban.
“I come and go as I please,”
you say, “swift as a heartbeat.”
You can tease me as much as you like
but never leave me.
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Miiller our neighbour ~ French Bulldog ~ Crescent Beach, territory of the Semiahmoo First Nation ~ Surrey BC ~ August 2021
According to Buddha
Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
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a day or so ago endless land ~ Legal, Alberta ~ July 2021
According to Buddha
I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.
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ongoing study of poppies ~ garden of the north ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ June 2021
According to Buddha
When somebody provokes your anger, the only reason you get angry is because you’re holding on to how you think something is supposed to be. You’re denying how it is. Then you see it’s the expectations of your own mind that are creating your own hell. When you get frustrated because something isn’t the way you thought it would be, examine the way you thought, not just the thing that frustrates you. You’ll see that a lot of your emotional suffering is created by your models of how you think the universe should be and your inability to allow it to be as it is.
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a moment with the BullDog ~ a day ago ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ April 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
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
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
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in the woods of Golden BC. a couple of months ago ~ December 2020
According to Buddha
To stay with that shakiness—to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feelings of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge—that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path. Getting the knack of catching ourselves, of gently and compassionately catching ourselves is the path of the warrior. We catch ourselves one zillion times as once again, whether we like it or not, we harden into resentment, into a sense of relief, a sense of inspiration.
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street a day ago ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ December 2020
According to Buddha
The work of quieting our minds and opening our hearts prepares us to be able to act in the world in a way that doesn’t create more suffering. When we develop that stance, a perspective arises towards life that allows us to be effective actors on the stage of life. So that you and I become instruments of healing, instruments of peace, of love and wisdom.
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a day ago or so ago ~ Whyte Avenue ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ December 2020
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