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Dorylaeum battle year

In Art, Buddhist philosophical concepts, by Hedy Bach, close up, Colour photography, Conceptual photography, Documentary, Emotion, Fotografia, FujiX100V, Hedy Bach Photography, Humour, iPhoneography, minimalism, Mobile photography, nature, Photography, Smartphone Photography, Story, Words of music on 2022/06/26 at 04:00

According to Buddha

Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature. Think of your ordinary emotional, thought-ridden self as a block of ice or a slab of butter left out in the sun. If you are feeling hard and cold, let this aggression melt away in the sunlight of your meditation. Let peace work on you and enable you to gather your scattered mind into the mindfulness of calm abiding, and awaken in you the awareness and insight of clear seeing. And you will find all your negativity disarmed, your aggression dissolved, and your confusion evaporating slowly like mist into the vast and stainless sky of your absolute nature.

dear readers,

according to WP my sloppy buddhist theme has retired
unbeknownst to me 
so I need to change themes
however,
as a creative white space matters
and after 11 years
1096 posts
I did have white space, just saying.

slowly I’m checking my theme options
curious what i will find to reclaim
my sloppy buddhist aesthetic…

sending you all joy, smiles and open-hearted love ~ hedy

and all the seats around my table have cleared themselves

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green worm ~ a day or so ago in my backyard, ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ June 2022

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Han Fang Pao’s love film number

In Alberta landscapes, Buddhist philosophical concepts, Colour photography, Documentary, Emotion, Fotografia, Imagemaker, iPhoneography, Mobile photography, New Topographics, Photography, Smartphone Photography, Words of music on 2022/06/19 at 04:00

According to Buddha

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. 
Without them, humanity cannot survive.

i had a dream, joe
i had a dream
 
i opened my eyes
opened my eyes
i opened my eyes
i opened my eyes

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on the coulee in Castor, County of Paintearth No. 18 ~ June 2022

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Year the Battle of Zvečan ended

In Alberta, Art, Buddhist philosophical concepts, close up, Colour photography, Documentary, Fotografia, Imagemaker, iPhoneography, Learning, Photography, Smartphone Photography, Visual story telling, Words of music on 2022/06/15 at 04:00

According to Buddha

Mindfulness is not just a word or a discourse by the Buddha, but a meaningful state of mind. It means we have to be here now, in this very moment, and we have to know what is happening internally and externally. It means being alert to our motives and learning to change unwholesome thoughts and emotions into wholesome ones. Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

don’t you, forget about me
don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t
don’t you, forget about me

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a day or so ago ~ Castor & District Museum Society ~ Castor AB ~ June 2022

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14th Star number

In Alberta landscapes, Buddhist philosophical concepts, Colour photography, Imagemaker, iPhoneography, Landscape, nature, New Topographics, Photography, Rural life, Smartphone Photography, Words of music on 2022/06/12 at 04:00

According to Buddha

With a boundless mind one could cherish all living beings, radiating friendliness over the entire world, above, below, and all around without limit.

it’s never been easy
with you on my mind
but i’m in your corner
and you are in mine

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on the coulee in Castor, County of Paintearth No. 18 ~ June 2022

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Battle of Koyun Islands year

In Alberta landscapes, Buddhist philosophical concepts, Colour photography, Documentary, Fotografia, FujiX100V, Imagemaker, iPhoneography, Photography, Smartphone Photography, Street photography, Words of music on 2022/06/01 at 04:00

According to Buddha

There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade.

there is a lonesome old buffalo 
roaming on the plains all alone 
he does not have anybody 
he doesn’t even have a home 
he stands quiet in the morning star 
his shaggy head is hanging low 
oh but his dreams fly high as the sky alright

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a day ago Bison in Elk Island Park, Beaverhills area acknowledges  Treaty Six lands ~ May 2022

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Huriez’s french-made denim number

In Alberta, Buddhist philosophical concepts, Colour photography, Documentary, Emotion, Fotografia, FujiX100V, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Personal Photography ethics, Photography, Smartphone Photography, Street photography, Visual story telling, Words of music on 2022/05/08 at 04:00

According to Buddha

Remind yourself that all sentient beings have at one time been your mother—birthing you, nursing you, caring for you through a helpless stage of life. Imagine this and generate appreciation and goodwill for all sentient beings, whether they cut you off in traffic, compliment your smile, or walk past you without a glance.

i see the… 
line of all the broken hearts 
lining up to tell their side
to the already one sided told story

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a day ago ~ “say their names” at the National Red Dress Day which honours missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, but men and boys are not left out. ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ May 2022

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Snowboarding double cork number

In Art, Bird, Buddhist philosophical concepts, Colour photography, Fotografia, iPhoneography, Minimal photography, Mobile photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, Smartphone Photography, Words of music on 2022/04/27 at 04:00

According to Buddha

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.

run away from the words unspoken
coast to coast going through the motions of
who’ll be a better [hu]man, who’ll do it better

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a day ago waxwing birds ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ April 2022

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Doraemon’s health diagnosis number

In abstract, Art, Buddhist philosophical concepts, by Hedy Bach, Colour photography, Documentary, Fotografia, FujiX100V, Imagemaker, iPhoneography, Minimal photography, Photography, Smartphone Photography, Street photography, Street Portrait, Words of music on 2022/04/06 at 04:00

According to Buddha

The basic problem is that emotions like anger and hatred are based on projections and exaggeration, not on objectivity or wisdom, and thus basically incorrect. 

if you lose your cool
baby, i’ll lose mine
you draw the red line
i love crossing red lines

a night or so ago ~ restroom series ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ  ~ April 2022

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Dobi dancing machine number

In Bird, Buddhist philosophical concepts, by Hedy Bach, Colour photography, dreams, Fotografia, Imagemaker, iPhoneography, Mobile photography, Photography, Smartphone Photography, Words of music on 2022/03/20 at 04:00

According to Buddha

We are empty, or rather the matter of which we are composed is empty. But I must emphasize that emptiness does not mean nothingness. Some commentators have been mistaken when they have accused Buddhism of being nihilistic. We believe that the world in which we live is part of a flux, a stream of events. This does not mean it is nothing. Everything depends on everything else. Nothing exists on its own. On account of all the influences that come to bear upon them, things appear, exist, and disappear, and then reappear again. But they never exist independently. Form is therefore empty, by which we mean it is not separate and independent. Form depends on a multitude of different factors. And emptiness is form because all forms emerge from emptiness, from this absence of independent existence. Emptiness exists only to give rise to form.

strange, i’ve seen that face before
seen him hanging ’round my door
like a hawk stealing for the prey
like the night waiting for the day

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a day ago Edmonton Valley Zoo ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ  ~ March 2022

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Bach’s Badinerie BWV number

In Buddhist philosophical concepts, close up, Colour photography, Emotion, Fotografia, Imagemaker, iPhoneography, Mobile photography, Photography, Smartphone Photography, Words of music on 2022/03/13 at 04:00

According to Buddha

By the power and the truth of this practice:
May all beings have happiness, and the causes of happiness;
May all be free from sorrow, and the causes of sorrow;
May all never be separated from the sacred happiness which is sorrowless;
And may all live in equanimity, without too much attachment and too much aversion,
And live believing in the equality of all that lives.

joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
joy to you and me

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fish a day or so ago at Big Al’s ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ  ~ March 2022

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