According to Buddha
All beings have lived and died and been reborn countless times. Over and over again they have experienced the indescribable Clear Light. But because they are obscured by the darkness of ignorance, they wander endlessly in a limitless samsara.
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some days ago ~ Ranunculus ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ February 2022
According to Buddha
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
***
railroad car at The Alberta Railway Museum, Etown ~ Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ November 2021
According to Buddha
Fixed ideas are like a wisp of cloud or smoke, but nonetheless people find themselves blocked or captured by these. You would laugh if you saw someone tripped by a cloud, or if someone claimed that they were imprisoned by the air. But, in fact, people are endlessly being trapped by things no more substantial than air or clouds. They make a wall with their mind, and then it imprisons them. Inherently, there is no wall or anything to trip over. These things are mirages they’ve created from the thoughts they gave rise to.
***
a day ago ~ spider dreams in Etown ~ Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ October 2021
According to Buddha
The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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red canoe ~ Father Lacombe Chapel ~ St. Albert ~ April 2021
According to Buddha
The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.
reflections of myself, life is no easy game
and we’re caught in the trade winds
the trade winds of our time
***
Barbed wire ~ December 2018
According to Buddha
It is better to speak less, and best to speak kindly.
come in here, dear boy, have a cigar,
you’re gonna go far,
you’re gonna fly high,
you’re never gonna die,
you’re gonna make it if you try,
they’re gonna love you.
***
La Tienda Cigars, Edmonton ~ Alberta ~ November 2018
According to Buddha
Whenever you are attached to something, that possessiveness deepens your delusion. You will be rudely awakened one day to find that nothing belongs to you. Isn’t it silly, therefore, to be attached to things that were never yours in the first place?
take me with you on this journey
where the boundaries of time are now tossed
in cathedrals of the forest
in the words of the tongues now lost
***
mushrooms in the front yard ~Edmonton, Alberta ~ September 2016
According to Buddha
Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.
if you feel a bit under the weather,
if you feel a little bit peeved,
take granny’s stand-by potion
for any old cough or wheeze.
it’s a cure for hepatitis it’s a cure for chronic insomnia,
it’s a cure for tonsillitis and for water on the knee.
have a cuppa tea, have a cuppa tea,
have a cuppa tea, have a cuppa tea,
halleluja…
***
grandmother tea cups series ~ Edmonton ~ August 2016.
According to Buddha
I do not see any reason to spend one’s whole life tasting just one kind of fruit. We human beings can be nourished by the best values of many traditions.
i dare you to close your eyes
and see all the colours in disguise
running into the night
the earth is shaking and i see a light
the light is blinding my eyes
as the soft walls eat us alive
***
Physalis peruviana, Edmonton ~ August 2016
According to Buddha
Beauty should not become the basis for individual likes or dislikes, as this leads to attachment—rather, we find joy in the beauty around us without attaching external value to it. Beauty is without any specific form, and in effect could be called formless, yet it also serves as a unifying force. Because all beings are interconnected, all beings have intrinsic beauty.
bullets made from silver spoons
i got em baby just for you
go ahead and make your move
and do it soon
***
Western Canada Fashion Week, (WCFW) Fantasy Night ~ Edmonton ~ September 21, 2015
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