According to Buddha
And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.
***
a fresh day ago or so in/outside ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ December 2020
According to Buddha
Practically speaking, if all of your enemies were well, happy, and peaceful, they would not be your enemies. If they were free from problems, pain, suffering, affliction, neurosis, psychosis, paranoia, fear, tension, anxiety, etc., they would not be your enemies. The practical approach toward your enemies is to help them overcome their problems, so you can live in peace and happiness.
the future’s open wide
i’ll stop the world and melt with you
you’ve seen the difference and it’s getting better all the time
***
melting ice ~ a day ago ~ Etown ~ April 2020
According to Buddha
Because seeing virtue in others is in itself a virtue, in appreciating others, we in fact dignify ourselves. [Admiring others could shade elegance upon ourselves.]
slide into the cool mud
underneath the pines
somewhere to your right or left
is my body you can find
****
River edge ~ North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton, AB ~ January 2019
numberAccording to Buddha
Memorize my poem, Samadhi, and repeat it daily. It will help to awaken within you that lost memory of what you are in reality: ‘Try to feel, when walking out of doors, that everything around you is part of your own expanded awareness’.
now i could see the sun rise and set on you
i’ve seen the sun rise and set on you
it set on you
you say you’re looking for something to make you feel anew
you don’t believe in God well whiskey will do
yes, whiskey will do
***
puddles –Edmonton, Alberta ~ April 2017
According to Buddha
There is no map that can show you how to leap. The map for this is somewhere in our own imagination, somewhere in the untrimmed part of us.
went down the hill, the other day
soul got happy and stayed all day
oh lordy, trouble so hard
oh lordy, trouble so hard
don’t nobody know my troubles but god
don’t nobody know my troubles but god
***
Gold Bar Park, Edmonton Alberta ~ March 2017
According to Buddha
There is one type of fear we even need to cultivate: this is the fear that if we don’t do anything about it, we will remain in the cycle of rebirth after rebirth in lives filled with problems and suffering.
walking on thin ice
i’m paying the price
for throwing the dice in the air
why must we learn it the hard way
and play the game of life with your heart?
and when our hearts return to ashes
it’ll be just a story
***
Laurier-Hawrelak Foot Bridge, North Saskatchewan River ~ Edmonton ~ November 2016
According to Buddha
Never concentrate on your faults. By doing so you identify yourself with them. You are the one who puts the veil of delusion in front of your wisdom’s eyes. Whatsoever you think, that is what you are.
i will find my own way,
on roads that only i can pave,
another year, or another day,
i will find my own way.
***
Edmonton, Alberta, Deep Freeze Byzantine Winter Festival, January 2016.
According to Buddha
No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed.
our words go beyond the moon.
our words go into the shadows.
the river sings the endlessness.
we write of our journey through night.
we write in our aloneness.
we want to know the shape of eternity.
***
Edmonton, Alberta ~ December 2015.
according to Buddha
The world of dew
is the world of dew.
And yet, and yet…
how it cuts like a saber
how it chills to the bone
you got cold feet and fingers
and you’re thinkin’ of home
***
Edmonton, Alberta ~ room with a view ~ December 2013.
according to Buddha
There are having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is nothing worrying over you, it will be the best seasons at all times.
singin’
joy to the world
all the boys and girls, now
joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
joy to you and me
***
Edmonton, Alberta ~ Mill Creek Ravine ~ 2013
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