According to Buddha
If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are peace.
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peace lily, Salisbury Greenhouse ~ February 2020
According to Buddha
If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are peace.
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peace lily, Salisbury Greenhouse ~ February 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
Cautious people say, “I’ll do nothing until I can be sure.” Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose.
cautionary tale that you know that i won’t be reading
cautionary tale that you know that i won’t be reading
cautionary tale to my own avail i believe in
cautionary tale that you know that i won’t be reading
***
East Beach ~ White Rock, BC ~ February 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.
***
sand East Beach ~ White Rock, BC ~ February 2020
According to Buddha
Just stop your wandering,
Look penetratingly into your inherent nature,
And, concentrating your spiritual energy,
Sit in zazen
And break through.
somehow we’ve gone and lost our way
but this is where we are
oh how you lift your rusted brow
little thoughts have weighed your vision down
***
According to Buddha
When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.
and the seasons they go round and round
and the painted ponies go up and down
we’re captive on the carousel of time
we can’t return we can only look behind
from where we came
and go round and round and round
in the circle game
***
birch ~ Amiskwaskahegan, Alberta ~ January 2020
According to Buddha
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
we can chase down all our enemies
bring them to their knees
we can bomb the world to pieces
but we can’t bomb it into peace
whoa we me even find a solution
to hunger and disease
we can bomb the world to pieces
but we can’t bomb it into peace
***
Alberta Aviation Museum ~ Etown Alberta ~ December 2019
According to Buddha
Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
hard light, take the wings of the winter
song bird, they were strong hands that held her
miles above ground
we can’t see you now
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right after dark… Elk Island ~ December 2019
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
***
Blue Hokkaido Pumpkin (Winter Pumpkin) ~ Holden Colony Produce ~ December 2019
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