self portrait
Why have just one?
Hope in Joplin, Missouri
“Hatred never ceases by hatred,
but by love alone is healed.
This is an ancient and eternal law”
~Buddha
30 minutes later
“Enlightenment is not like a sudden realization of something mysterious. Enlightenment is nothing but awakening from illusions and returning to the reality of life.”
Opening the Hand of Thought by Kosho Uchiyama
it ain’t what they call, ya, it’s what ya answer to
Can you see
the rose in the garbage?
Can you see
the garbage in the rose?
Thich Nhat Hanh
Heart Sutra edit
form (wave) is emptiness (water), emptiness (water) is form (wave)
all things are like this.
all that’s missing is a yellow rose
