According to Buddha
Fish play in the water. Birds play in the sky. Ordinary beings play on the earth. Sublime beings play in display.
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a week or so ago just off Highway 5 ~ August 2021
According to Buddha
It is very good to recite the mantra Om mani padme hum, but while you are doing it, you should be thinking on its meaning, for the meaning of the six syllables is great and vast.
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a day or so ago Edmonton City Hall ~ Etown ~ Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ~ August 2021
According to Buddha
On the mundane level, the clear comprehension of impermanence, suffering and non-self will bring us a saner outlook on life. It will free us from unrealistic expectations, bestow a courageous acceptance of suffering and failure and protect us against the lure of deluded assumptions and beliefs. In our quest for the supra-mundane comprehension of the three characteristics will be indispensable.
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a week or so ago ~ along Eden Rd, Clearwater, BC ~ August 2021
According to Buddha
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
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a week or so ago ~ a nostalgic walk though Lower East side, Vancouver ~ August 2021
According to Buddha
We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness.
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a day or so ago ~ a nostalgic walk though Lower East side, Vancouver ~ August 2021
According to Buddha
I said: How can such an ocean be contained in a jar? He replied: “How can you even grasp the understanding of the how and the means of this? Who can come to realize the mastery of the work that has no like? Inside the limited, He lays the world of infinity.
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a day ago West Beach White Rock ~ The Semiahmoo First Nation ~ July 2021
According to Buddha
After all this time. The Sun never says to the Earth, “You owe me.” Look what happens. With a love like that, it lights the whole sky.
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wine time a day ago ~ Crescent Beach, territory of the Semiahmoo First Nation ~ Surrey BC ~ July 2021
According to Buddha
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
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a day or so ago Crescent Beach, territory of the Semiahmoo First Nation ~ Surrey BC ~ July 2021
According to Buddha
You hide me in your cloak of nothingness. Reflect my ghost in your glass of being. I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream. Where your eternity briefly trembles.
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a week ago Ocean Park, South Surrey, BC ~ June 2021
According to Buddha
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor…Welcome and entertain them all.
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a day ago in the town of Morinville, AB ~ June 2021
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