Dwelling among the causes of death ~ Nagarjuna https://justdharma.org/dwelling-among-the-causes-of-death/ #Nagarjuna #causes #death #impermanence

Having no destination, I am never lost. — Ikkyu #Ikkyu #destination

“A crooked tree lives its own life, but a straight tree is turned into wood.” — Chinese Proverb

In temples across Japan each April 8, visitors celebrate Hanamatsuri, the Flower Festival, commemorating the Buddha’s birth. Devotees pour ladles of amacha sweet tea over a small statue of the infant Buddha, reenacting the moment when dragons bathed the newborn with sacred rain. 🧵 🗃️ 📜 #花祭り

I love this short and sweet routine to start my morning

I stayed up late reading Ani Pema’s new book, Another Kind of Freedom. It arrived yesterday. I'm so grateful to have her wisdom on this path. She’s 90 years old now! And, always accessible, relatable and tender. 🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🏿🙏🙏🏼

"Whether we look to Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism or any of the world's great spiritual traditions, the message is fundamentally the same: love, compassion, tolerance, and self-discipline. Violence finds no true home in any of these teachings."

The wise treat the personality like a shadow; It follows them along Yet, it is no bother. Wu Hsin

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#RealBuddhaQuotes What if nothing you’re holding onto is really staying anyway? So… why grip so hard?

"Those who are happy Are so Because they desire happiness For others." -Shantideva.

The Circus is Samsara #TADC

"You cannot stop your life, you know. You are always changing into something else. Always. Incessantly." - Shunryu Suzuki 🥀♥️🙏

The Eight Worldly Dharmas worded by Nagarjuna (150CE - 250CE): Being happy if you acquire, Being unhappy if you do not; Being happy if comfortable, Being unhappy if not; Being happy if famous, Being unhappy if not; Being happy if praised, Being unhappy if criticised.

Fill the air with poems So thick Even bombs Can’t fall through -Peter Levitt

Homage to Kwan Yin Bodhisattva ☸️

When the moon in your mind waxes beneath the water, where does the master of my being go?

“Death’s proximity makes life burn all the brighter” - baby possum in The Wild Robot

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Fully illumined Brilliant sun in every heart Sea of reflections #vss365

“Our love for God can be measured by our love for our neighbor.” — The Way of the Heart

This is what it’s like to be human, will you ever get used to it?

I swear I also circumambulated.

Where I'm posting from today

“But being confronted by such incomprehensible tragedies without taking any action is tantamount to affirming them. Regardless of the circumstances, we must take some form of action.” The Courage To Be Disliked

“In a time of destruction, create something.” - Maxine Hong Kingston

I should call her

Maruyama Okyo Skeleton Performing Zazen on Waves, 1787 (Daijoji Temple, Hyogo, Japan)

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This afternoon around 2:30 California time, our sangha will chant the Pamsukula, traditional funeral chant. We'll stream it on Dhammadharini's YT and FB

#art #dharma #philosophy #buddhism #bodies #booksky

"You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.' -Pablo Neruda

“Sometimes our misfortunes are the sails that take us to the shores we are meant to be on.” Dune prophecy

Ce que je fuie me suis, ce que je fais face s’efface.

“Death does not separate, death unites. Life is what separates us.” - Heinrich Heine

"Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses." -Martin Prechtel

When compassionate insight becomes steady, it becomes a source of refuge in difficult times, www.compassmethods.com. youtube.com/@compassions... #refuge

👇🇨🇳🇧🇹 China Encroaching Again "China is building new villages on its remote Himalayan border. Some appear to have crossed the line" #China #NewChineseSettlements #Bhutan #Himalayas

🌸Om🌸Mani🌸Pemay🌸Hum🌸