According to Buddha
The universe and the light of the stars come through me.
i know it all from diogenis to foucault
from lozgechkin to paspartu
i ja kljanus obostzav dva paltza
schto muzika poshla ot zvukov mu!
start wearing purple wearing purple!
start wearing purple for me now!
all your sanity and wits, they will all vanish,
i promise, it’s just a matter of time!
***
Ochre sea star at low tide White Rock, BC ~ July 2019
According to Buddha
Someone who begins to develop an interest in the teachings can tend to distance themselves from the reality of material things, as if the teachings were something completely apart from daily life. Often, at the bottom of all this, there is an attitude of giving up and running away from one’s own problems, with the illusion that one will be able to find something that will miraculously help one to transcend all that. But the teachings are based on the principle of our actual human condition. We have a physical body with all its various limits: each day we have to eat, work, rest, and so on. This is our reality, and we can’t ignore it.
i’ve been living on the outside
looking in
searchin’ for some kind of answer
i’m forever questioning
***
an evening walk around downtown ~ Calgary, AB ~ July 2019
According to Buddha
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
i tell myself sometimes
that it happens as it should
comforting words to hide behind
***
YEG downtown ~ Strathcona Science Provincial Park ~ July 2019
According to Buddha
In general, people say, ‘We are following Dharma”, and speak of it as a kind of religion created by Buddha Shakyamuni. That is not a correct point of view. Buddha never created any kind of school or religion. Buddha was a totally enlightened being, someone beyond our limited point of view. The teaching of the Buddha is to have presence in that knowledge.
i got a feeling i just can’t shake
i got a feeling that just won’t go away
you’ve got it, just keep on pushing and, keep on pushing and
push the sky away
***
Stephen Avenue Galleria Trees + Wonderland ~ Calgary, downtown ~ June 2019
According to Buddha
To produce a primary [karmic] cause which is potentially capable of having an effect, three things are necessary: intention, the actual action, and then satisfaction.
i can’t get no satisfaction, i can’t get no satisfaction
’cause i try and i try and i try and i try
i can’t get no, i can’t get no
when i’m drivin’ in my car, and the man comes on the radio
he’s tellin’ me more and more about some useless information
supposed to fire my imagination
***
fungi ~ Canmore AB ~ June 2019
According to Buddha
From all kinds of flowers,
Seek teachings everywhere,
Like a deer that finds
A quiet place to graze,
Seek seclusion to digest
All you have gathered…
i watched the sunlight coming near
i knew the day i knew the night
i knew i could regain my sight
and it feels alright
and it feels alright
with my naked eye
***
wild flowers in early morning fields ~ Etown AB ~ June 2019
According to Buddha
The light of the sun is the manifestation of the clarity of the sky; and the sky is the basic condition necessary for the manifestation of the sun’s light. So, too, in the sky two, three, four, or any number of suns could arise; but the sky always remains indivisibly one sky. Similarly, every individual’s state of presence is unique and distinct, but the void nature of the individual is universal, and common to all beings.
one of these mornin’s
you’re gonna rise up singin’
you’re gonna spread your wings
and fly to the sky
***
Lake Minnewanka (/ˌmɪnəˈwɑːŋkə/) (“Water of the Spirits” in Nakoda) ~ Banff National Park ~ June 2019
According to Buddha
Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem, are like nets which trap us in dualism. When we discover our limits we have to try to overcome them, untying ourselves from whatever type of religious, political, or social conviction may contain us. We have to abandon such concepts as ‘enlightenment’, ‘the nature of the mind’, and so on, until we no longer neglect to integrate our knowledge with our actual existence.
and oh, how our glory may fade
fade, well, at least we’ve learned
some things along the way
and we can see life hand in hand
the green, the blue, the rock, the sand
and in our time and in our land, we’ll savour every day
***
Fedorah Ukranian Orthodox Church + school + Our Lady of Mount Carmel ~ in the locality of Fedorah, Alberta ~ June 2019
According to Buddha
May I see what I do. May I do it differently. May I make this a way of life.
anywhere you are and you’ll go, i follow
mountain high and river low, i follow
take me to the bottom, drive me in low
wherever you go
mountain high and river low, i follow
***
Banff Avenue, Banff National Park ~ June 2019
According to Buddha
If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
if you awaken from this illusion
and you understand black implies white
self implies other
life implies death
you can feel yourself
not as a stranger in the world
not as something here on probation
not as something that has arrived here by fluke
but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolute fundamental
what you are basically
deep deep down
far far in
is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself
***
Lake Louise hamlet in Banff National Park, Treaty 6 ~ June 2019
