Cultivate doing good. It can be done. If it brought deprivation and sorrow, I would not ask you to do it. But since it brings blessing and happiness, I do ask of you: cultivate doing good.
do you come from a land down under where women glow and men plunder can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder you better run, you better take cover buying bread from a man in brussels he was six foot four and full of muscle i said, “do you speak-a my language?” he just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich and he said:
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a day ago these humans agreed to be photographed ~ around the town ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ April 2022
The successive existences in a series of rebirths are not like the pearls in a pearl necklace, held together by a string, the ‘soul,’ which passes through all the pearls; rather they are like dice piled one on top of the other. Each die is separate, but it supports the one above it, with which it is functionally connected. Between the dice there is no identity, but conditionality.
people of today remember painted stories with a kinscape that reflected all living time and i often wondered what had happened to those other ones who found themselves denied
how did you deal with no appeal? just an open window
Sometimes we feel that one individual’s action is very insignificant. Then we think, of course, that effects should come from channeling or from a unifying movement. But the movement of the society, community or group of people means joining individuals. Society means a collection of individuals, so that initiative must come from individuals. Unless each individual develops a sense of responsibility, the whole community cannot move. So therefore, it is very essential that we should not feel that individual effort is meaningless – you should not feel that way. We should make an effort.
If you have never taken The principles of the teachings to heart, You have no basis For awakening to the hidden path.
so, i’m at your house this morning just a little after nine ’cause, it was in bobcaygeon where i saw the constellations reveal themselves one star at a time
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a week or so ago a wee chat about gasoline ~ Andrew, Alberta ~ which lies on Treaty Six land ~ March 2022
However deep your
Knowledge of the scriptures,
It is no more than a strand of hair
In the vastness of space;
However important appears
Your worldly experience,
It is but a drop of water in a deep ravine.
One has to develop a panoramic awareness, an all-pervading awareness, knowing the situation at that very moment. It is a question of knowing the situation and opening one’s eyes to that very moment of nowness, and this is not particularly a mystical experience or anything mysterious at all, but just direct, open and clear perception of what is now without being influenced by the past or any expectation of the future, but just seeing the very moment of now, then at that moment there is no barrier at all.
Everyone wants happiness, but the true way to reach perfect happiness is to bring happiness to others.
i keep my nose on the grindstone, i work hard every day i might get a little tired on the weekend, after i draw my pay then i’ll go back workin’, come monday morning i’m right back with the crew i’ll drink a little beer that evening sing a little bit of these working man blues
All the peace and happiness of the whole globe, the peace and happiness of societies, the peace and happiness of families, the peace and happiness in the individual persons’ life, and the peace and happiness of even the animals and so forth, all depends on having loving kindness toward each other.
i wanna dance by water ‘neath the mexican sky drink some margaritas by a string of blue lights listen to the mariachi play at midnight are you with me, are you with me?
A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.
you can count on me like one, two, three i’ll be there and i know when i need it, i can count on you like four, three, two and you’ll be there ’cause that’s what friends are supposed to do, oh, yeah ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh, yeah, yeah
Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives from music, sounds, and weeping, Yet inthat echo is no melody.
i was born here and i’ll die here against my will i know it looks like i’m movin’ but i’m standin’ still every nerve in my body is so naked and numb i can’t even remember what it was i came here to get away from don’t even hear the murmur of a prayer it’s not dark yet but it’s gettin’ there
sloppybuddhist 
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