According to Buddha
I, the snow lioness who stays in snowy solitudes, Have milk which is like the essential nectar. In the absence of golden cups, I would not pour it in an ordinary vessel.
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yesterday in the woods Terwillegar Park, ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ April 2022
According to Buddha
Ego is the problem. Sometimes ego is very spoiled, like a child who is constantly throwing tantrums. Sometimes ego doesn’t accept where we are. Sometimes ego doesn’t accept who we are. Sometimes ego doesn’t accept the way things are without any real complaint. So what do we do? There is nothing that we can do. Sometimes ego doesn’t accept the fact that the sky is blue but there is nothing that we can do. You see. Sometimes ego doesn’t accept that we are living on a planet that is permeated with natural disasters, earthquakes, floods, and other catastrophes. All we can do is accept that and learn how to surrender to the flow of all events.
***
reflections on a fall on ice ~ a day or so ago ~ Etown – Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ March 2022
According to Buddha
You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
i talk to the trees
but they don’t listen to me
i talk to the stars
but they never hear me
the breeze hasn’t time
to stop and hear what i say
i talk to them all in vain
***
hammock hiding in the trees ~ yesterday Etown ~ June 2020
According to Buddha
When you know how to listen everybody is the guru.
love is but a song to sing
fear’s the way we die
you can make the mountains ring
or make the angels cry
though the bird is on the wing
and you may not know why
come on people now
smile on your brother
everybody get together
try to love one another
right now
***
a day ago chatted with the humans ~ Whyte avenue Etown ~ May 2020
According to Buddha
The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We’ve seen too much now. To some degree or other, we have surrendered into service and are willing to pay the price of compassion. But with it comes the joy of a single, caring act. With it comes the honor of participating in a generous process in which one rises each day and does what one can. With it comes the simple, singular grace of being an instrument of love, in whatever form, to whatever end.
my holdings and my land to again
if we were just to take my name
in the springtime of the year
oh how happy you could be here
in the springtime of the year
the sun will burn up all the snows
***
sun. snow. rain. Springtime in Etown ~ May 2020
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
Be here now.
images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
they call me on and on across the universe.
thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box,
they tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe.
***
Strathcona Science Provincial Park ~ a day or two ago ~ April 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
Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation.
Use it.
well we know where we’re going
but we don’t know where we’ve been
and we know what we’re knowing
but we can’t say what we’ve seen
and we’re not little children
and we know what we want
and the future is certain
give us time to work it out
***
parked cars yesterday ~ Etown, AB ~ March 31, 2020
According to Buddha
You are in charge of your own karma, your own life, your own spiritual path, and your own liberation, just as I am in charge of mine.
you know i always liked that empty road
no place to be and miles to go
but miles to go is miles away
hello sunshine, won’t you stay?
***
just after the dark ~ Terwillegar Park, Edmonton, AB ~ April 2019
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