Mindfulness in ordinary activities means bringing deliberate, kind, and non-judgmental attention to everyday tasks such as walking, eating, working…turning routine moments into opportunities for calm awareness, gentle insight, and reduced reactivity. -Joel Judge #buddhism #awareness #mundfulness

Artist Simone Leigh “Brick House” 2019 #art #sculpture

╰┈➤ Contemplation on interdependence is a deep looking into all phenomena in order to pierce through to their real nature, in order to see them as part of the great body of reality, and in order to see that the great body of reality is indivisible. #ThichNhatHanh ↓ ↓

The experiences of life keep shattering my illusions about myself. Who I think I am, how I think I am perceived can be so wrong. The realization hurts. I did not act right, did not see my reflection. Now I must correct course: let go of my illusions, act right, see myself through others’ eyes.

Women Waiting for the Moon to Rise, 1944 by Uemura Shoen, an important artist in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese painting #WomensArt

The next book I want to read is one you’ve underlined, highlighted decorated the margins with your notes that way I can read you and it – feed one bird with two scones @artandpoetry.bsky.social ❤️ ✍️ 🎨 Denise Hopkins Fine #Art

Shinsuki Inoue #art #sculpture #woodsculpture

Shinsuki Inoue #art #sculpture #woodsculpture

Shinsuki Inoue #art #sculpture #woodsculpture

Tamara de Lempicka #art #painting

"Year of the Fire Horse" designed by Stella Shi.

Tamara de Lempicka #art #painting

#GoodMorning, Skylarks Yulan magnolia (Magnolia denudata or Magnolia liliiflora) flower bud resembles a small, fluffy bird just before fully opening They have been cultivated in Buddhist temple gardens for nearly 1,500 years.

If I were a rabbit trying to use my phone.

Wisdom, which helps us make reasonably good life choices, enabling us to live reasonably good lives, can’t be secret or esoteric. It must reside in what is common and ordinary; otherwise, what hope would any of us have of living well? Rafe Martin #buddhism #wisdom

📸 @schamorro. #photography 🦒 my spirit animal

#Sunday © Elisabeth Ladwig

Silence (Black Sun) #art by Odilon Redon

“I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.” - #ÉmileZola

I can't afford to hate people. I haven't got that kind of time. -Takashi Shimura (1905-1982) ✋🏼 🌸 🎵 (Photo by Kirpal)

“Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realises that he has never done anything but dream.” ~ Fernando Pessoa (1888 – 1935) #Illustration by Riccardo Vecchio.

Light Fugue, 1937. Rudolf Bauer. OIl on canvas.

Amedeo Modigliani #art #painting

Pema Varja Designs #art #painting #lotus #koi #budda

Living the Dhamma is hard. Living the Dhamma is easy. Whenever you feel conflict arising within you and you start to think the Dhamma is hard, just stop and let the Dhamma win. In this way living the Dhamma is easy. #buddhism #dhamma #dharma

Amedeo Modigliani “Woman with Red Hair” #art #painting

Amedeo Modigliani #art #painting

🎨 Wilhelmina Krutrök #art title - blue lotus

Focus in on the present moment to see if the mind is experiencing pleasure or pain. Is it dark or is it bright? Watch what’s going on. Is it experiencing pleasure or pain? This inner sensitivity is what you can depend on. No one else can create it for you. It has to arise within you. -A. F. Acaro

Fra Angelico #art #painting

Marcel Duchamp #art #painting “Bride”

ShouXin #art #painting #cats

ShouXin #art #painting #cats

🕊️ Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make sense any more.” ✍️ Coleman Barks

We have a great, habitual fear inside ourselves. We’re afraid of many things — of our own death, of losing our loved ones, of change, of being alone. The practice of mindfulness helps us to touch nonfear. It’s only here and now that we can experience total relief, total happiness(p1) #thhchnhathanh

In the practice of Buddhism, we see that all mental formations — including compassion, love, fear, sorrow, and despair — are organic in nature. We don’t need to be afraid of any of them, because transformation is always possible. (p2) #thichnhathanh #buddhism

Gertrude Abercrombie. Estadounidense, 1909-77. Casa Solitaria. 1938 La llamaban la Reina de los Artistas Bohemios y presidía reuniones en su casa de Hyde Park, entre las que se encontraban Thornton Wilder, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Parker y otros.

#photograph by Kyle Goetsch @rae-dahl.bsky.social

'may something comfort you - a mockingbird, a breeze, rain on the roof, Chopin’s Nocturnes, a kiss, or even me - in my chilly kitchen with my coat on - thinking of you.' 🖊️ Ellen Bass Insomnia 🎨 Stephanie Law

Takashi Murakami #art #painting

#life #freedom #sojournertruth

Endless Mike Gough c. 2020

If you missed the opening exhibitions at Haven Gallery over the weekend, you have plenty of time to see each beautiful collection - including Genevive Zacconi's, Invictus solo show! havengallery.com/portfolio/ge... Exhibition Dates: February 7 – March 8, 2026 [email protected] #art #artshow

"Buddha-Nature exists in everyone no matter how deeply it may be covered over by greed, anger and foolishness, or buried by deeds and retribution. Buddha-Nature cannot be lost or destroyed; and when all defilements are removed, sooner or later it will reappear." ✨ His Holiness The Dalai Lama

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

Meditation is the practice of looking deeply into the nature of your suffering and your joy. Through the energy of mindfulness, through concentration, looking deeply into the nature of our suffering makes it possible for us to see the deep causes of that suffering. #buddhism #thichnhathanh

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that. 🖊️ Jack Kerouac @artandpoetry.bsky.social ❤️ 💋

"I think that will depend on whether the people in the peace movement can be peace. Because without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace." #ThichNhatHanh #BeingPeace 🪡 2