The trees are yearning for you to notice the bright green of their leaves. The breeze wants you to enjoy its soft touch on your cheek. Even the ground under your shoes is waiting for you to notice the lively sensation it creates as you walk.​“ 🖊️ Jane Brunette 🎨 Carin Wagner #art oil on linen

violets grow here and there in the ruins of my burned house Shokyu-ni

we are the ones we have been waiting for June Jordan

traveling home soon

☀︎ A student asked Soen Nakagawa during a meditation retreat, "I am very discouraged. What should I do?" ☀︎ Soen replied, "Encourage others."

💎 🪷💐 "This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.” Precious Jewel His Holiness Dalai Lama 🎨 Chaaya Prabhat #art

💎 On the occasion of my birthday, if you, my friends, can guard your minds and lead good-natured lives, you will be joyful at heart and as a result will be able, directly and indirectly, to help everyone around you," His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. #dalailama

youtube.com/watch?v=wxiM... 🎶 This land is your land and this land is my land From the California to the New York island From the redwood forests to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me 🎶

🪷 soften buddhism may be practiced in many forms as a philosophy religiously or as best you can Wilhelmina Krutrök 🎨

isn't this a cool pattern? umm... made by ... 🐊 ❗️ we're enjoying the island safely 🩴🩴👙🐠🦀🐸🐢 🦎🐬🐟🌴 🏖️ 🏝️

we are enjoying 🌊 and 🏝️ 🏖️ 🩴🩴👙🦎🦀🐠 🐢 Sea turtle nesting season - running from May through October - has begun on beaches. Along the SC coastline, we're home to nesting loggerheads and the rare green sea turtles and Kemp's ridleys. 📷 Sylvia Bacon

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"in the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair". Bob-la 🪷 may you see the realm of all the buddhas may you know all the sounds as your own sound may you have safe passage through the bardo metta 🪷

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ོ ོ ོ ☼ ོ ོ ོ ོ ོ ོ ﹏﹏﹏﹏𓊝﹏﹏𓂁﹏﹏﹏ 𓇼 ⋆.˚ 𓆉 𓆝 𓆡⋆.˚ 𓇼 friends we are enjoying some sanctuary this summer 🫧𓇼

above all never lose hope ru🪷 see you

The mind knows intuitively how to find a middle path 🖊️ Mark Epstein

"Being gentle with ourselves is of utmost importance. The more we can love and respect ourselves free of arrogance, the more we can love and respect others. In this way compassion starts at home." His Holiness The Dalai Lama 📷 Tenzin Choejor #photography #buddhism

#GoodMorning, Skylarks ..."floral crown giraffes"..torn paper collage..2016... lisa morales #art american mixed-media collage #artist.. educator known for her vibrant works made entirely out of hand painted papers

ni, ni, skylarks Craig Tracy Body #art #zen

youtube.com/watch?v=tx8X... 🦒 "humming"

🪷 as Bodhicitta is so precious may those without it now create it may those who have it not destroy it may it ever grow and flourish

#Prince Starfish and Coffee 🎶 If you asked her what she had for breakfast This is what she'd say Starfish and coffee Maple syrup and jam Butterscotch clouds, a tangerine And a side order of ham. 🎶 #artist Ginette Beaulieu oil on canvas #art Extensively exhibited in Canada, United States, France

#GoodMorning, Skylarks 🦒For decades, giraffes were thought to be practically silent due to their neck structure. Researchers later discovered that giraffes emit a harmonic, sustained humming sound at night, though the exact purpose of this eerie droning remains a mystery. 📷 Bagatelle Kalahari

listen for whatever comes forward there is a great dreaming going on Buddha nature is as natural as the compassion of the white lotus ru 🪷 #zen 📷 Bahman Farzad #photography

...even when I don’t believe there is a place in me inaccessible to unbelief a patch of wild grace 🖊️ Anna Kamienska 📕 Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska; "Lack of Faith”

i am as ordinary as the day if you see in me something more it is the reflection of your grace ru 🪷 Gentle Descent 🎨 Jeff Stanford #art

‎꧁ ༺ ༻ ꧂ Sentient beings are numberless i vow to liberate them Desires/Delusions are inexhaustible i vow to end them Dharma gates are infinite i vow to enter/master them The Buddha Way is unsurpassable i vow to embody/attain it

#GoodMorning, Skylarks The giraffe’s scientific name, Giraffa camelopardalis, comes from the ancient Greeks’ belief that it looked like a composite creature, a camel wearing a leopard’s coat.

If we want peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to find the soft spot and stay with it. We have to have that kind of courage and take that kind of responsibility. That's the true practice of peace. 🖊️ Pema Chödron Practicing Peace in Times of War

🌈 🎨 Loryn Brantz #art

it s a gift of the Buddha to always be a student on the path 🪷 🎨 Kais #Art

this week's adventure 🐝 🐝 🐝 we found ourselves with an established nest of yellow jackets on the grounds and it has been successfully removed

#GoodMorning, Skylarks 🦒 four species include: > southern giraffe (Giraffa giraffa), > Masai giraffe (G. tippelskirchi), > reticulated giraffe (G. reticulata) >northern giraffe (G. camelopardalis), which includes the Nubian giraffe (G. c. camelopardalis) as a distinct but related subspecies.

"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can know the truth. They preach, undeterred by details, the ancient law of life." 🖊️ Hermann Hesse Wanderer 📷 Moreton Bay Fig tree National Tropical Botanical Garden on Kauai, Hawaii #photography

i pay homage i make offerings i take refuge 🪷 #art Marika Lemay

i am content with what i am 🪷 this tsukubai has a square basin that represents a particle used to complete the four Chinese characters on each side of it. Reading the kanji with the▫️included each gives you "ware tada taru wo shiru" "I only learn to be content" 📷 Tsukubai Water Basin

At Ryoan-ji in Kyoto there is a famous rock garden; wherever in it a person stands, one of the fifteen rocks cannot be seen. A reminder that always something unknowable is present - and that something is as much part of the real as any other stone amid the raked gravel. 🖊️ Jane Hirshfield

weimin zhang #art 🪷 be as the lotus fresh and pure

🪷 may you be at peace may your heart remain open may you awaken to the light of your own true nature may you be healed may you be a source of healing for all beings metta #zen #art Brahman Farzad

The sunrise is beautiful, the rose that bloomed this morning along the wall is a miracle. Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects. Do not think we must be solemn in order to meditate. To meditate well, we have to smile a lot. #ThichNhatHanh

Violent action creates more violence. That’s why compassion is the only way to reduce violence. And compassion is not something soft. It takes a lot of courage. 🪷Thich Nhat Hanh

Look at the birds. Even flying is born out of nothing. The first sky is inside you, friend, open at either end of day. The work of wings was always freedom, fastening one heart to every falling thing. 🖊️ Li-Young Lee 🎨 Wilhelmina Krutrök #art

🪷 in speaking to ourselves be as kind as we would to one we love ❤️

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╰┈➤ "Our self is not a thing but a space of potential located inside the space of awareness" 🖊️ James Low The Mirror of Clear Meaning: A Commentary on the Dzogchen Treasure Text of Nuden Dorje