According to Buddha
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore…Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
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me + dog + little black box ~ yesterday Etown ~ Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ May 2021
According to Buddha
Don’t prolong the past,
Don’t invite the future,
Don’t alter your innate wakefulness,
Don’t fear appearances,
There’s nothing more than that!
i looked a coyote right in the face
on the road to baljennie, near my old home town
he went running thru the whisker wheat
chasing some prize down
and a hawk was playing with him
coyote was jumping straight up and making passes
he had those same eyes just like yours
***
me and my dog just after dark a day or so ago ~ Etown ~ April 2020
According to Buddha
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
(s)he gives
i get
and the dogs they run
and the dogs they
and the dogs they run
in the good good morning sun
***
my one week mutt study ~ etown ~ April 2020
According to Buddha
In handling matters, let your mind influence your heart. In dealing with people, let your heart influence your mind. [Manage business with mind based upon your heart; while dealing with human relationship, you will let your heart drive your mind.]
if dogs run free, why not me
across the swamp of time?
my mind weaves a symphony
and tapestry of rhyme
oh, winds which rush my tale to thee
***
random streets in San Isidro ~ Lima, Peru ~ August 2019
According to Buddha
No human being should behave like an animal, identified with her lower nature. She should manifest her true divine self.
je n’ai pas peur de la route
faudrait voir, faut qu’on y goûte
des méandres au creux des reins
et tout ira bien
le vent nous portera
***
“No No” the Chihuahua of Afurada, Portugal ~ April 2018
According to Buddha
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.
what’s chasing you? ooh-ooh-ooh oooh
what’s chasing you? ooh-ooh-ooh oooh
i don’t understand a single word that you say
baby are you talking to me?
words that twist around a wire again make
you send through all your secrets to your heart (this line i’m not sure)
what’s chasing you? ooh-ooh-ooh oooh
what’s chasing you? ooh-ooh-ooh oooh
***
mutt running ~ Edmonton, Alberta ~ February ~ 2018
According to Buddha
In meditation, you must go beyond thought. As long as you are busy thinking, you are in your rational mind, on the conscious plane. When you sleep and dream, you are on the subconscious plane, and in your astral body. And when your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul’s existence.
walk me out in the morning dew, my honey
walk me out in the morning dew today
i can’t walk you out in the morning dew, my honey
i can’t walk you out in the morning dew today
where have all the people gone, my honey?
where have all the people gone today?
there’s no need for you to be worried about all those people
you don’t never see those people anyway
i guess it doesn’t matter anyway
i guess it doesn’t matter anyway
i guess it doesn’t matter anyway
i guess it doesn’t matter anyway
***
Terwillegar Park, , Edmonton, Alberta ~ May 2017
According to Buddha
Most people live on the surface of life. But it is by deep-sea diving in the ocean of thought that you receive the pearls of knowledge.
feel the rhythm with your hands
steal the rhythm while you can, spoonman
speak the rhythm on your own
speak the rhythm all alone, spoonman
spoonman, come together with your hands
save me, i’m together with your plan
save me
***
Edmonton, Alberta ~ March 2016
According to Buddha
You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world.
looking for someone, i guess i’m doing that,
trying to find a mem’ry in a dark room.
dirty man, you’re looking like a buddha,
i know you well – yeah.
random streets ~ Lisbon Portugal ~ 2016
According to Buddha
You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
time, time, time see what’s become of me
while i looked around for my possibilities
i was so hard to please
but look around leaves are brown
and the sky is a hazy shade of winter
***
Mill Creek Ravine, Edmonton Alberta ~ 2017
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