According to Buddha
If you touch the nature of interbeing, you don’t try to run away from suffering anymore. Instead you try to embrace your suffering. You look deeply into it to understand its nature and learn how to make good use of suffering to produce happiness.
whether you’re woman or whether you’re man
sometimes you got to take a stand
just because you think you can
you got to run
you got to run
***
Bison ~ Elk Island National Park, Yellowhead Highway ~ October 2019
According to Buddha
Speak kind words,
think good thoughts,
do good deeds,
and walk the right path.
***
Calgary New Central Library, Calgary Alberta ~ November 2018
According to Buddha
Wallowing is a “bottomless pit” of pain, because we generate pain in response to pain. It’s bottomless because there’s no end to that. But this wallowing is not necessary. “When a well-taught noble disciple is afflicted by painful bodily feelings,” the Buddha says, “she will not worry nor grieve and lament, she will not beat her breast and weep, nor will she be distraught.” And thus she becomes one “who can withstand the bottomless pit and has gained a foothold in it.”
fade into you
strange you never knew
fade into you
i think it’s strange you never knew
***
Elk Island National Park, along Highway 16 ~ Alberta ~ August 2015.
According to Buddha
Wisdom can teach us to separate people’s actions from who they are. We can agree or disagree with their actions, but remain balanced in our relationship with them. We can also understand that our own thoughts and impulses are the result of impersonal conditions. By not taking them so personally, we are more likely to stay at ease with their arising.
cause i saddle up my horse
and i ride into the city
i make a lot of noise
cause the girls
they are so pretty
riding up and down broadway
on my old stud Leroy
and the girls say
save a horse, ride a cowboy
***
St. Albert, Alberta ~ Rainmaker Rodeo ~ May 2015.
According to Buddha
Buddha-nature can also be understood as the primordial reality from which phenomenal reality springs or the changeless reality empty of only that which is other than itself.
a long, long time ago,
in the land of idiot boys,
there live a cat, a phenomenal cat,
who loved to wallow all day.
fum, fum, diddle-um di
la la la la, la-la la la
la la la la, la-la la la la
la la la la-la la la
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