a cloud never dies ☁️
rain 🌧️
🌫️ fog
wave 🌊
🌏 ocean
tears 🥲
🫖 tea

#ThichNhatHanh calligraphy
#zen #art

a cloud never dies 🌧️
rain 🌧️
🌫️ fog
wave 🌊
🌏 ocean
tears 🥲
🫖 tea

♥️🌍🌻🥀

in April, 2017, Donald, 90 years old, came to stay with us for a while in recovery of eye surgery.

"I forgot the color purple and now I can see it again."
💜

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekPForPurple

This is the actual story:

🪷 thank you 🙏
🙇‍♀️

our breakfast conversation
was about God. Ava brought
the idea to the table for discussion
and our consensus is
God is everything

call it whatever you want
describe it whichever way makes
you comfortable
let the realization wash you
in astonishing grace 🪷

Hiroki Kawanabe (Japan b. 1983)
Philosophy (2022)
acrylic on paper
#art 🎨

"As Meister Eckhart said,
"God, please relieve me of the idea of God so I can experience the reality of God.” Acknowledging the egoic boundary of his experience, he realized that he couldn’t even hold onto his spiritual conceptions. Conceptualization gets in the way of revelation."

🖊️ Adyashanti

🪷 i ask that beginning today,
extend all the care, loving,
compassion
and kindness onto yourself

forgive yourself for any grudges you
are holding against yourself,
for any shortcomings you imagine

beginning today,
fall in love with your
beautiful spirit ru 🪷

? what if ?

we started our morning here
discussing God and god which
actually got quite deep for a
breakfast conversation.
our conclusion- God is everything

Happy Earth Day

(h/t @rae-dahl.bsky.social)

🤭 and good, also 🙃🙂

god morning, Javier 🌎 🩵

#HappyEarthDay

"Walk as though you're
kissing the earth with your feet."
#ThichNhatHanh

🎨 Katie Daisey #art

"At the dawn of his enlightenment, someone asked the Buddha,
'What are your credentials? How do we know that you are enlightened?'

He touched his hand to the ground. 'This solid earth is my witness. This solid earth, this sane earth, is my witness.'"

#HappyEarthDay 🌎 🌏 🌍

🪷🦒❤️🌎💫🌈🌳🌷🐇🦓🐙🕷🐝🦋🌻🌞🌜💦🍋🫖🤟🏼📿🙏
“Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. This is the real message
of love.”
♡ #ThichNhatHanh * Teachings on Love #EarthDay

#GoodMorning, Skylarks

#EarthDay

Prince - Purple Rain (Official Video) YouTube video by The Codfather

youtube.com/watch?v=TvnY...
🎶 I only wanted to see you
Laughing in the purple rain 🎶

#Alphabetchallenge
#WeekPForPurple

i didn't know
i just found out!
and i didn't know that hippos
do not swim!

🦛
DNA studies confirm that cetaceans (whales/dolphins) and hippos share a closer evolutionary bond with each other than with any other living animal.
They are one of Africa's deadliest
mammals.

does whale🐳
or dolphin 🐬
come to mind when you see
this image?
do the words dangerous
killer occur to you?

our teachings should not remain as words or ideas
put into our actions is how buddha
nature is experienced and offers
inspiration 🪷

The Zen monk famously known as Ryokan was named Taigu Ryōkan (大愚良寛, 1758–1831). He was an eccentric Sōtō Zen Buddhist monk and hermit poet who called himself "Taigu" or "Great Fool" to represent freedom from worldly ambition. He was born Yamamoto Eizō in Niigata
Prefecture.
#zen #buddhism

Dirty Dancing 💃 🕺

A person in a coat stands in between two dunes watching the Milky Way at night. Source: www.publicdomainpictures.net Text: The Power of Myth, 1988, p.40.

A dream is a personal experience
of that deep, dark ground that is
the support of our conscious lives,
and a myth is the society’s dream.

The myth is the public dream
and the dream is the private myth.

[continued below, 1 of 2]
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

If your private myth, your dream,
happens to coincide with that of the society,
you are in good accord with your group.

If it isn’t, you've got an adventure
in the dark forest ahead of you.
[2 of 2]

thank you for sharing!

oh my 🩵