According to Buddha
The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times.
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According to Buddha
Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here.
Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now.
Say it until you can hear it.
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ESO at the AGA: a programme of women composeers ~ September 2020
Sophie Eckhardt-Gramatté – Caprice No. 1 for solo violin
Sophia Dussek – Sonata for Harp Opus 3 No. 3
Augusta Read Thomas – “Rumi Settings”
Carmen Braden – “The Raven Conspiracy”
According to Buddha
The next message you need is always right where you are.
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abandoned farm ~ Athabasca County, August 2020
According to Buddha
Once a very old king went to see an old hermit who lived in a bird’s nest in the top of a tree, “What is the most important Buddhist teaching?” The hermit answered, “Do no evil, do only good. Purify your heart.” The king had expected to hear a very long explanation. He protested, “But even a five-year old child can understand that!” “Yes,” replied the wise sage, “but even an 80-year-old man cannot do it.
we are the halluci nation
we are the human beings
the callers of names cannot see us but we can see them
we are the halluci nation
our dna is of the earth and sky
our dna is of past and future
we are the halluci nation
we are the evolution, the continuation
Glenora building + Government House ~ Amiskwaskahegan, AB ~ August 2020
According to Buddha
The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.
coeur mécanique où sont tes piles?
perdu dans un monde, tout étranger
quelle est la raison pour tous ces mensonges
on a plus le droit de se renfermer
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MacEwan West Campus (Grant MacEwan Community College) ~ Etown ~ July 2020
According to Buddha
You walk down the street and you’re somebody; you dress like somebody; your face looks like somebody. Everybody is reinforcing their structure of the universe over and over again and you meet [each other] like two huge things meeting. We enter into these conspiracies. You say, I’ll make believe you are who you think you are if you make believe I am who I think I am.
this blue eye perceives all things conjoined…the past, the future, and the present. everything flows and all is connected. this eye is not merely seen reality—it is touching the truth
there is nothing to fear
yeah
listen to me
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protest = humans trying to explain the inexplicable ~ Calgary AB ~ July 2020
According to Buddha
Together we are all on a journey called life. We are a little broken and a little shattered inside. Each one of us is aspiring to make it to the end. None is deprived of pain here and we have all suffered in our own ways. I think our journey is all about healing ourselves and healing each other in our own special ways. Let’s just help each other put all those pieces back together and make it to the end more beautifully. Let us help each other survive.
i can see clearly now the rain is gone
i can see all obstacles in my way
gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
it’s gonna be a bright (bright)
bright (bright) sunshiny day
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a street walk across the High Level Bridge ~ Etown ~ July 2020
According to Buddha
You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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public art + remember/ing ~ Highway of Tears, at Tete Jaune Cache ~ June 2020
also see ❤️
The REDress Project by Jaime Black❤️
Red Dress Photography Project by Mufty Mathewson❤️
number of solar days in the mean tropical year by Hedy Bach
According to Buddha
I can do nothing for you but work on myself…you can do nothing for me but work on yourself.
they’re tearing down
so we can rebuild
and all this time
is just circles in my mind
so just for a moment
just one moment
just for a moment let’s be still
just for a moment let’s be still
just for a…
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red things along the way ~ Etown ~ June 2020
