River Daughter
I remember the day we died together on the green river in every single detail. It is not a memory or a dream, but a repeated reality. I turn away to repeat it like a mantra when everything in this war seems so hopeless.
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Making Images: from the land of a million gods
In the developed world, we are actually taught to make images to symbolise or represent almost everything—images for remembering, for recognising, to navigate, and so on, and we excel at it.
attachment, Japanese Rituals, Mindfulness, Uncategorized
Temple Chronicle: Winter Training in Japan – Fear!
The heavily conditioned mind thrives on this substance ‘fear.’ It efficiently suppresses originality and the courage to be truly ourselves, first with others, but then eventually with ourselves, so that we are no longer familiar with our True Nature and become self-dishonest.
attachment, impermanence, Mindfulness, True Nature
Envy: the Middle Way
Envy comes from an extreme selfishness and an ignorance of ones own inner beauty and bliss. If we have not allowed our own being to bloom due to pressure to compete with others so common in the world today, then we lack trust, trust in our uniqueness, in our goodness. And trust in others to recognize our uniqueness and our goodness.
attachment, Breathing as one, Mindfulness, no separation, Oneness, Reading the Air: impression of Japan, The Cathars: The Church of Love, the Permanence of sound, True Nature, Visible - Invisible
Making images : our major test as humans
This temptation to ‘identify’ with images we constantly create is our major test as humans!
attachment, detachment, The flow of pure love energy, True Nature, Visible - Invisible
Temple Chronicle: 29th February
The light of day comes and it goes from my personal theatre. Objects and people come and they go, they wax and wane, as I watch from the gallery. This
attachment, detachment, Mindfulness, no separation, The flow of pure love energy, True Nature
Temple Chronicle: 21st February
Our human lives are a process, a means whereby, but what is the result, the end-product? Our story began with the moment of birth and it will end with the
attachment, Breathing as one, no separation, True Nature, Veil of Death
Temple Chronicle: 18th February
Love is like the weather or the perpetual blue sky behind clouds. The conditioned mind has no power to change it because it is limitless, way beyond the visual aids of ‘time’ and ‘space.’
attachment, detachment, Indigenous wisdom, Mindfulness, move away from the flames of human emotions
Temple Chronicle: 15th February
Hindu deities are fashioned out of mud exactly so that there is no danger of them or the spirits behind them becoming permanent. Tibetan Buddhists make the most exquisite mandalas
attachment, no separation, Oneness, True Nature
Temple Chronicle: 14th February
Objectivity or conscious awareness necessarily creates a division or separation because objects need a subject to perceive or be aware of them. The perceiver and the perceived. The aspiration and