Instead of doing a hundred things half-heartedly, do one thing whole-heartedly.

Title: Moon-Water Bodhisattva Kuanyin

Place: China, Tangut State of Xi -Xia, Khara-Khoto

Date: Early 12th century

Be who you are, but don’t hurt others.

Title: Buddha Amitabha

Place: China, Tangut State of Xi -Xia, Khara-Khoto

Date: 13th - 14th century

Technique: roll on silk

There are realistic and religious issues in human life. The solution to the realistic issues only meets temporary needs, yet that to the religious issues can satisfy the permanent demands. Master Jiqun

Double-Headed Buddha

Place: China, Tangut State of Xi-Xia, Khara-Khoto

Date: 13th-14th century

Archaeological site: Suburgan, Khara-Khoto

Material: clay, with mineral paints and gilding

Hay temas realistas y religiosos en la vida humana. La solución a los problemas realistas sólo satisface las necesidades temporales, sin embargo, la de las cuestiones religiosas puede satisfacer las demandas permanentes.

Hongzhi Zhengjue

Withdraw now from

the invisible pounding and weaving

of your ingrained ideas.

If you want to be rid of this

invisible turmoil, you must just sit

through it and let go of everything.

Attain fulfillment and illuminate thoroughly.

Light and shadow altogether forgotten.

Drop off your own skin,

and the sense-dusts will be fully purified.

The eye then readily discerns the brightness.

— Hongzhi Zhengjue

***

Retirate ahora

del golpeteo invisible y el tejido

de tus ideas arraigadas.

Si deseas deshacerte de esta

agitación invisible, tendrás que sentarte

a través de ella y dejar todo de lado .

Llegar a realizarse e iluminar a fondo.

Luz y sombra por completo en el olvido.

Deja tu propia piel,

y los sentidos-polvos estarán completamente purificados.

El ojo luego discierne fácilmente el brillo.

- Hongzhi Zhengjue

art ... Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939) - Woodcock with chicks, oil on canvas, 32 x 56 cm.

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. – Shunryu Suzuki

Kawase Hasui, Matsubara Lake, 1941

Tsuchiya Koitsu, Lake Shojin, 1934

Kawase Hasui, Rain on Lake Matsume, 1932 

Kawase Hasui, Nenokuchi, Towada, 1933

Kawase Hasui, Lake Ezu in Kumamoto, 1923

Kawase Hasui, Kisaki Lake in Shinsu, 1941

kukai

"Twelve years after Kyoto was founded, a young priest named Kukai returned from a brief sojourn in China to establish the Shingon Sect of Buddhism. Over the centuries, this new sect was to become one of the largest and most popular in Japan, and its founder's reputation was to grow apace. Recognized in his own day as a master calligrapher and an accomplished sculptor, Kukai is revered today as the inventor of the kana syllabary, the basis of written Japanese. Legend also credits Kukai, in this ninth-century wood carving, with the introduction of tea to Japan."

Samantabhadra

Samantabhadra (Sanskrit, "Universal Worthy"), is a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism associated with practice and meditation. Together with Gautama Buddha and his fellow bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, he forms the Shakyamuni trinity in Buddhism. He is the patron of the Lotus Sutra and, according to the Avatamsaka Sutra, made the ten great vows which are the basis of a bodhisattva. In China, Samantabhadra is associated with action, whereas Mañjuśrī is associated with prajñā. In Japan, this bodhisattva is often venerated by the Tendai and in Shingon Buddhism, and as the protector of the Lotus Sutra by Nichiren Buddhism.

VAJRAPANI & HAYAGRIVA

Guardian of the Faith


Protector of the teachings and remover of obstacles to the teaching, strong and unwavering, massive and grounded – no one can get past Vajrapani. He stands here in warrior pose, clasping a vajra, symbol of the energy channels of the body, with his other hand raised in the threatening gesture. He represents the power of all the Buddhas of past, present and future. A statue of Vajrapani is placed at the entrance to monasteries and temples to ward of those that would harm the teachings or the sangha, or temple. Vajrapani is sometimes situated next to the Buddha with Avalokitesvara on the opposite side. Here he is the central figure.

Hayagriva is a yidam, or personal protector deity, the fierce form of Avalokitesvara and represents fierce compassion. The Bird-man above, Garuda, is the eagle of wisdom; he too is here acting as guardian and protector, enemy of the snake race, the nagas lords and ladies of the underworld.

© Laura Santi

Matsuyama Miyabi 松山雅

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story. — Byron Katie

Robert Marchessault（Canadian/Irish, b.1953）

Koop Island Blues 2015 Oil on panel 60″×48″

Vikki Chu

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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. — Marcus Aurelius

Paul Henry (French, 1848–1905)
A Section of the Constellation Cygnus (August 13, 1885)
Albumen silver print from glass negative

Relaxed Avalokiteswara, Nepal

Buddha, Mahabodhi temple, Bodhgaya, Bihar

Ebru Sidar, Photographer.

Mountains and a lake, by Kubota Beisen, 1891.

HAYASHI Takahiko 林孝彦 (contemporary) source: http://takahikohayashi.tumblr.com/

Fungi illustration by Beatrix Potter

Fra Angelico, St. Gabriel, Annunciation (detail) (c. 1430-1432)

Federico Olaria (1849-1898) - A strange thing, oil on canvas, 38 x 55 cm.