Fragrant Grasses.

 

First, I went following the fragrant grasses,

Now I return chasing falling leaves.

 

Chosha Kenjin, in Blue Cliff Record,

a collection of Chan Buddhist Koans.

 

Single moon.

 

A single moon,

bright and clear,

in an unclouded sky,

yet, we stumble

In the world's darkness.

 

Ikkyu

 

 

 

Smile,

 

Smile,

               Breathe,

                                      Go slowly,

  

     Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Happy.

 

 

Fight.

 

Those who are skilled in combat

do not become angered,

Those who are skilled  in winning

do not become afraid.

Thus.

The wise winning before the fight

The ignorant fight to win.

 

O'Sensei Morihei Ueshiba.

 

 

 

The World.

 

Consumed with anger,

The world is an ugly place,

 

Bathed in happiness,

The world ia a wonderful place.

 

But, aha.........

it's the same world.

 

Taitetsu Unno.

 

*my favorite :')

June.

 

color pencil portrait on brown paper.

 

 

 

Travel.

 

The importance of self awarenss.

 

 

 

 

 

weather.

 

 

Within us.

 

All the gods, all the heavens,

all the hells, all the world,

are within us.

 

Joseph Campbell.

 

Every moment, is the guru.

 

Life always gives us exactly

the teachers we need at every moment.

This includes,

every mosquito,

                      every misfortune,

every traffic light,

                                        every obnoxious supervisor

every illness,

                              every loss,

every moment of joy and depression,

                                 every breath,

              every moment,

is the guru.

 

Charlotte Joko Beck.

Experience.

 

Experience is a hard teacher,

it gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.

 

CS Lewis.

The door.

 

One went to the door of the Beloved and knocked.

A voice answered, "who is there?"

He answered, 'it is I'

The voice said, "there's no room for me and thee."

The door was shut.

 

After a year of solitude and deprivation

the man returned to the door of the Beloved.

He knocked.

A voice from within asked, "who is there?'

The man said, 'it is Thou.'

The door was opened for him.

 

Rumi.

 

You are.......

 

You are the trips I did not make

you are the pearls I could not buy

you are my blue Italian sky

you are a piece of foreign sky,

 

you are my heart's unuttered tune

you are a candle in my nights

you are the flowers in my rains

you are a bit of blue in my dark sky.

 

Anne Campbell.

 

 

Yoga.

 

Yoga teaches us

to cure what need not be endured

and endured what cannot be cured.

 

B.K.S.Iyengar

 

 

 

 

The Freshness.

 

The Freshness.

a poem by Rumi.

 

 

 

Red.

 

The poorer we are inwardly,

the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly.

 

Bruce Jun Fan Lee.

Harmony.

 

All can do good as food only because there is evil

Therefore having and not having arise together

Difficult and easy complement each other

Long and short contrast each other

High and low rest upon each other

Voice and sound harmonize each other

Front and back follow one another.

 

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching Chapter 2

translation by Gia Gu Feng and Jane English.

 

 

Remember.

 

Between too many miles

and too little smiles,

               I remember you still,........

 

(Harry Chapin lyrics)

 

Understand.

 

Lucy Christopher in 'Stolen'.

Enlightenment.

 

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water.

The moon doesn't get wet, nor the water broken.

Although its light is wide and great

the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide,

the moon and the entire sky

are reflected in one dew drop on the grass.

 

Dogen.

Tulips.

 

 

Melasti.

 

 

Love is the answer.

 

Love is the answer.

The question is unimportant.

 

Jeff Foster.

Borobudur.

 

Let all embracing thoughts for all beings be yours.

In gladness and in safety,

May all beings be at ease,

 

Metta Sutta.

Buddha words on loving kindness.