🪷 today's contemplation may we all be willing to astonish the cruelty around us with acts of kindness and compassion ru

#ThichNhatHanh #zen

today's contemplation may i not fall into a state of indifference to the suffering around me may i realize any action i take for the wellbeing of another is a blessing of the Dharma metta 🪷

•°* 0・ • *0 • °* *.. 🫖 *. 0 * • * • * •0* 。*・。 That morning I heard water being poured into a teapot. The sound was an ordinary, daily, cluffy sound. But all at once, I knew you loved me. An unheard-of thing, love audible in water falling.

#ThichNhatHanh #zen 🪷

Fred LaMotte A reading from ~ Savor Eternity One Moment At A Time ~ Dogen saw stars in a dewdrop. Ananda saw Buddha in a flower. I saw Christ gazing back at me from the bottom of the empty cup. Some pour it all out to get here. I got here by drinking everything.

In Zen they say there are only two things: You sit, and you sweep the garden. And it doesn't matter how big the garden is. 🖊️ Jack Kornfield

I Report To Earth ...excerpt... Some parts of you were able to listen. Some parts were able to weep - a sound somewhere between morning bird calls and millstones. You sang, this day as always, your terrors and tenderness, your drowned and your swimming. 🖊️ Jane Hirshfield 🎨 Wilhelmina Krutrök

I learned so much fromGod that I can no longer call myself Christian Hindu Muslim Buddhist Jew Truth has shared so much that I can no longer call myself man woman an angel or even pure soul Love has befriended Hafiz so completely it has turned to ash and freed me of every concept and image

🪷 A single word of truth which calms the mind is better to hear than a thousand irrelevant words. **•** Dhammapada verse 100

In Denmark, empathy is taught in school as a whole subject, as math or science. Imagine for a moment if we did the same. If we offered our children the keys to building a more compassionate world, where understanding each other would be as valuable as knowledge. What if the future started here?

🪷 to those that may find themselves in the midst of my sangha welcome

that we know of

"Oh well, enough said - my soul sends your soul a pinch . . ." 🖊️ Anne Sexton

the morning hush amplifies my loneliness Mother ♥️

if your light falls out of your mouth pick it up (and put it back.) 🖊️ Nayyirah Waheed 🎨 Karin Iwabuchi

Poem: For Warmth Winter 2001 I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm— two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger. 🪡

We can practice being gentle with each other by being gentle with that piece of ourselves that is hardest to hold.” *Audre Lorde 📷 Jane Goodall

`*.¸.*´ “Radiate boundless love towards the entire world, above, below, and across, unhindered, without ill will, without enmity. `*.¸.*´ Siddhartha Gautama Karaniya Metta Sutta 🎨 Lama Tashi Norbu

America reveals her heartbreaking contradictions: the immense love of a family ripped apart by inhumane policies, and the quiet humanity of an officer who, while he did not choose this pain, is forced to stand in its presence. It is a portrait of injustice and also a portrait of conscience.

Each time you look at a tangerine, you can see deeply into it. You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine. When you peel it and smell it, it’s wonderful. You can take your time eating a tangerine and be very happy.” *Thich Nhat Hanh

you stand in need of your own compassion be generous towards yourself 🪷

When we find ourselves in the place to receive truth, it’s there for us. All that is required is to drop any pre-conceived opinion and entertain another idea. If it’s not what you expected, at least investigate the possibility. @hcrichardson.bsky.social shines a light into the dark for us. ♢🌷☀︎

"If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else." *Papaji 🎨 Park Hang Ryul

“As goes the Indian and Buffalo, the wild turkey has been compelled to yield to the destructive ingenuity of the white settlers." Bonaparte, Charles 🎨 Artwork by Titian R. Peale

in the current chaos practice gratitude 🪷

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all. ☀︎。＊ૐ☼ ☀︎ the Buddha

so lightly this life this time around 🪷

Peace is not in the wet coolness of the forests or in the imposing summit of the mountains or in the interior of the caves. The peace you seek is in the same place where you inhabit your turmoil and your suffering. *Ajahn Chah

November steals light. Its groaning, overstuffed table force-feeding December’s mandatory twinkle. Sticky sugar & shine. A buffer for the hangover January brings, when we huddle & low, hay damp in our shuttered mangers, pockets emptied of savings & saviors 🖊️Amy Dryansky Forecasting

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📷 Lilian Öis

the librarian’s cat for some time she called me Naomi while she read The Tree is Older Than You Are for a short time i was nayyirah as she devoured salt and nejma for months i was Gabriel steeped like tea in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera 🪡

the call had been urgent eight days ago, at least dr smashlove’s bicycle roadside skeleton of ice ru Amsterdam, "Brouwersgracht" 📷©️Niki Bruno Photography

the beasts within us

🍁 🦊 🍂 source - My Modern Met

you don't have to love someone to pray for them in fact, you don't even have to like them but if you are able to pray for those who may need your prayers the most to find the right path to amend their journey those that suffer the harshest conditions 🪡

“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.” Thich Nhat Hanh

seconds and minutes into hours into afternoons evenings days and nights into weeks and months and the years all of the years you wrote me down wrote me weeping and laughing and living and you wrote me loving you, loving you, loving you ru

you have to keep breaking your heart until it opens *Rumi the ruins of Wat Chai Wattanaram in Ayuttahaya, Thailand 📷©️ Brian Busovicki

here in this quiet white and you there in such splendor could i have imagined such depth could you have imagined such ease ru 📷©️ Michael Hassler Study in Autumn 1

as the rusted gate holds autumn for the day you've held me on autumn days when i clung to words in the pages kitten-eared blood-stained marked-over ode to Neruda ru

You can keep as quiet as you like . . . but one of these days somebody . . . is going to find you. Haruki Murakami 1Q84

💫 the practice of the dharma cannot be individual anymore it should be a collective practice practice with family practice with friends take your practice with you wherever you are Thay and ru 🪷

Although there are countless living beings, humans and non-humans, all are included within three kinds: those who seek mainly worldly happiness, those who seek mainly the attainment of liberation from samsara, and those who seek mainly the attainment of full enlightenment. 🪡