🪷 friends we will be traveling home soon 📷 "Seatbelt Check," is a well-known example of forced perspective #photography by Graeme Guy in Kenya's Maasai Mara 🦒 • Contest Recognition: This photo was a finalist in the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.

the quietness the place between missing you and living on i find myself in conversations with chickadees i find the johnny-jump-ups having been held by you still in longing Poems for my Mother ❤️ ru

@translate84000.bsky.social #HappyMothersDay

@wildmanrouse.bsky.social Galapagos giant land turtle could be as old as #DavidAttenborough or older ... 🐢

#WangPing #GarySnyder

#GarySnyder "Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.”

Sir David Attenborough OM GCMG CH CVO CBE FRS FSA FRA FLS FZS FRSGS FRSB 100 years young born David Frederick Attenborough 8 May 1926 Isleworth, Middlesex, England

"Zen, as the arm of Buddhism most given to the life of the spirit, really doesn’t care about theology or dogma; it takes people where the spirit leads, has a complete authenticity of its own, one must adjust this authenticity to whatever received teachings one started from on one’s own." Gary Snyder

nothing is normal except the red clover holding us together without knowing how unbearably we need it ru

🪷❤️ friends please forgive my lack of interaction recently Ava will be transferring to Duke University Hospital today. She is in need of escalated care. we have secured accommodations there since her stay may be lengthy prayers and positive energy are welcome 🙏 🤲 📿🪷

"When we see people living mindfully, in a loving manner, we gain confidence in our future. There's a lot of suffering in the world; it's important to stay in touch with this suffering in order to be compassionate. To remain strong, we also must embrace the positive elements." #ThichNhatHahn

*・〜**・*：......：♥ "Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life." • Wu Men Hui-k'ai

🪷 nourishment comes from many sources find simplicity find harmony find grace find ease 🌸🌿🌸🌸 adenium obesum bonsai 📷©️lord_snakeup on the gram

TOMORROW'S SONG The USA slowly lost its mandate in the middle and later twentieth century it never gave the mountains and rivers, trees and animals, a vote. all the people turned away from it myths die; even continents are impermanent 🖊️ Gary Snyder 📕 Turtle Island

🪷 Vesak 📿

i dreamt of a man with ampersand hair and pockets in uncomfortable places he said he carried me around in short stories he constructed in heavy sighs under blue eyes ru #tbt

😭 I'm a white man, born in Selma. This truly breaks my heart. I aspire to have it break my heart *open.* 🙏

love itself describes its own perfection be speechless and listen Rumi 🎨 ensosuki #art Trent Rickman #artist

Sometimes you’ve got to leave the herd, eh. Like this gemsbok (oryx) in Namibia. It could be dangerous, but at times necessary. The older I get, the more solitary I’ve become. Not hostile or angry (anymore), but eremitical: seeking solitude, peace, renewal. 📸 Gerbaldi Thibault, Namibia

Is there a word for reading multiple books simultaneously? Interleaving? 🤔 I'm getting nothing done today because a new (used) book arrived. Is it something you do too? 😁 And of course, reading it pleased me so that I've already ordered another by the same author. 😂 🎨 Henri Matisse, 1890

“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet. Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cézanne @paraguaijin.bsky.social

Do you know how many times we have been born and died? If you take a mountain six miles long and six miles wide and six miles high, and a bird flies over that mountain once every hundred years with a silk scarf in its beak... and brushes the tip of the mountain.

🦒 despite their extreme length, giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae as humans - seven 📷 londolozi game reserve #photography #nature

Turtle Island 📕 🖊️ Gary Snyder

#GoodMorning, Skylarks

i imagined walking through the forest and there were leaves on the ground it had just rained and the rain had stopped and it’s damp and walking and somehow that is all in tea a place a time within a cup of tea 📷 Stacy Cramp 🍁 🍃 🍂 some autumn for @paraguaijin.bsky.social

as a lamp a cataract a star in space as an illusion a dew drop a bubble a dream a cloud a flash of lightning view all created things like this excerpt Diamond sutra translator 🖊️ Red Pine

"This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting ready to break my heart. . . ." Mary Oliver There is so much in life that will break our hearts open: breath-taking beauty, deep loss, human cruelty and stunning generosity. May we allow life to soften us where we are becoming hardened,

"Bodhicitta encourages us to make friends with our vulnerabilities and our deepest pain. Each moment is a chance to awaken our hearts to self-love and compassion for ourselves. Then that love eventually extends out to all the people in our life." 🖊️ Anthony Tshering 🎨 #art Rosalind Gittings

🪷 today's consideration there are boundless opportunities to be kind, abundant possibilities to give comfort i shall seek the occasions for compassion to be kind, to remain humble, in this existence and the ten thousand lives as yet May all sentient beings be free from suffering metta

#GoodMorning, Skylarks 🦒Their tongues and upper lip are also prehensile, which means that they work much like a hand or like an elephant's trunk, dextrously wrapping around leaves and flowers. Their tongues are coloured bluish-black, which helps to protect them from sunburn. ↓ #nature

A reflection on ancient wisdom & western translators. Translators are frenemies. They show us the wonders in other languages. They also are human with pre-conceptions, limited knowledge, the usual. I'm reading a Chinese commentator on the Chuang Tzu that demonstrates this. 1/3 📸 andy for melbourne

Chuang Tzu ch. 1.4 Therefore, complete people have no self, spiritual people have no merit, saintly people have no name. Lovely: modern, straight-forward, brief, clear. But wait, wut? It could mean anything [we wish.] I had 2 translations before an English commentary by a Chinese philosopher. 2/3

Wu Kuang-Wu's literal translation. And so they say: “In the ultimately-arrived man there is no need for self-asserting; In the spirit-filled man there is no need for merit-striving; In the holy-hearkening man there is no need for name-labeling. Now I read Cleary & Maire with more knowledge. 3/3

“Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts.What good is it to brood over the past and fret about the future?Dwell in the simplicity of the present moment.Live in harmony with the dharma.Make it the heart of your life and experience.Be the master of your own destiny.” ― Dilgo Khyentse

Photo from Dorjee Zong Nunnery in Zanskar, one of the seven nunneries supported by the Tibetan Nuns Project, by Olivier Adam #mondaymotivation

"'For as long as space endures, And for as long as living beings remain, Until then may l too abide, To dispel the misery of the world.' And, in trying to fulfil that aspiration, may my life have been of some benefit." "My favourite prayer" HH Dalai Lama

✿⊱•╮❥╭•⊰✿❥ “If you have suffered, it is only because you have forgotten you are a leaf, a flower.” 🪷 🌿🌺🌸🌱🙏🌷 #ThichNhatHanh 🌷🙏 #zen 📕 call me by my true names 📷 Jamie’s Jungle 🎋💐🌿🌸🍃🌺🌾 #photography #nature

Love in the ruins. Ta Prohm Temple Angkor Thom, Cambodia. Founded as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery, c.1200 CE, UNESCO World Heritage. "The temple was built without mortar and, after it was abandoned, trees took root in the loosened stones." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta_Prohm #ThickTrunkTuesday

Finished reading Old Path, White Clouds by Thich Nhat Hanh. phenomenal book, cannot recommend it enough

Wild carrot (Daucus carota), also known as Queen Anne's Lace #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQForQueen #Photography Of New England 📷 Ron Desrosiers

Who says my poems are poems? My poems are not poems. When you know that my poems are not poems, Then we can speak of poetry! — Ryōkan

🪷 seeking the soft season poured into and from sunday mornings poems are falling from the sky an ease of impermanence ru 🎨 #art Listening to the Universe #artist Arna Ba

"My hand used to hold a Koran but now it holds Love's flagon. My mouth was filled with glorification, but now it recites only poetry and songs." Jalaluddin Rumi This verse marks a pivotal moment in Rumi's life upon meeting his spiritual mentor, Shams al-Din of Tabrizi.

If you ever get lost in the Milky Way galaxy, this is your map to get back to Earth 🎨 🎶 🖊️ Pablo Carlos Budassi is an Argentinian artist, musician, and writer, known for his passion for exploring the mysteries of the cosmos and expressing his fascination through graphic art, music and poetry.

When we practice forgiveness individually, we start by recognizing that we have all betrayed and hurt others, just as we have knowingly or unknowingly been harmed by them. It is inevitable in this human realm. Sometimes our betrayals are small, sometimes terrible.

#GoodMorning, Skylarks 🦒 The giraffe’s heart, weighing approximately 11 kilograms, has a much thicker muscle on its left side compared to other mammals. This adaptation allows the heart to generate enough force to pump blood against gravity throughout the giraffe’s long body.

Inside each of us, there's continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water. ～∽ ～＊ Rumi 🍁🔸🍂Fall walk in Kyoto ► Red Pine (translator) Bill Porter (author) OP some autumn for @paraguaijin.bsky.social

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Every human activity can be infused with affection. Today all 8 billion human beings have to live together, so a sense of the oneness of humanity is crucial. When people are motivated by compassion, honesty and truthfulness naturally come about, leading to trust and friendship. - HH Dalai Lama.♥️🙏