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.
impermanence
The Artist
A young woman flees from war into a foreign country. She has no money or way of earning any, so she sleeps in the marketplace on a doorstep, washing in
Scent of the Divine
What can we learn from those deprived of fully or normally functioning senses about accessing other ways of being? How can we avoid the domination of visual processing, the consequent
Bodhi, Bodhi Mind, Breathing as one, impermanence, The flow of pure love energy, True Nature
Atisha and the 7 mind trainings: try it for yourself.
Atisha’s ‘7 Points of Mind Training’ are not philosophy or religion They are pure science, so please experiment for yourself.
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.
Bodhi, detachment, impermanence, Mindfulness, True Nature
Embracing death and therefore life
If we know death at each moment we also know life.