Catching wild flowers

viajando ,,,, (tomadas desde el auto y luego editadas)

cuando la nostalgia de los ocasos embellecen rosas ............

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.

When we realize the Dhamma, wherever we sit we know Dhamma, wherever we are we hear the Buddha’s teaching. When we understand Dhamma, the Buddha is within our mind, the Dhamma is within our mind, and the practice leading to wisdom is within our own mind. Having the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha within our mind means that whether our actions are good or bad, we know clearly for ourselves their true nature.

– Ajahn Chah

If the eye never falls asleep,
all dreams cease by themselves.
If the spirit retains its unity,
all things are of one essence.
When this essence is seen,
in an instant we are free.
We return to the origin
and remain that which we are.
— Seng-ts’an

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Si el ojo nunca duerme,
todos los sueños cesan por sí mismos.
Si el espíritu conserva su unidad,
todas las cosas son de una esencia.
Cuando se observa esta esencia,
en un instante somos libres.
Volvemos al origen
y seguimos siendo lo que somos.
- Seng-ts'an

In the spring scenery there is nothing superior, nothing inferior; flowering branches grow naturally, some short, some long. From this standpoint, you see, everybody is seen to be a perfect manifestation of the godhead or of the void or whatever you want to call it. Everybody. — Alan Watts

En el paisaje de primavera no hay nada superior, nada inferior;

ramas con flores crecen naturalmente, algunas cortas, algunas largas.

Desde este punto de vista,

todo el mundo es una manifestación perfecta de la divinidad

o del vacío o como quieran llamarlo.

Cada uno.

- Alan Watts

One can only be moral because you like to do it that way. There really is no other reason whatsoever. And to try and find other reasons always perverts morality. — Alan Watts

Uno sólo puede ser moral porque te gusta hacerlo de esa manera. Realmente no hay otra razón. De intentar encontrar otras razones siempre pervierte la moral.

- Alan Watts

Just as the balances of a garden in which the bird eats the worms and the snail eats the lettuce, all these processes of conflict build up the ongoing miracle of the garden itself. So in the same way, things that you see in yourself as neuroses, as forms of ill health, as things that you shouldn’t be, they are your slugs and worms. — Alan Watts

Al igual que los balances de un jardín en el que el ave come los gusanos y el caracol come la lechuga, todos estos procesos de conflicto ayudan a reconstruir el milagro de vivir en el propio jardín. Así de la misma manera, las cosas que se ven en sí mismas como neurosis, como formas de mala salud, como las cosas que no deben ser, ellas son sus babosas y gusanos.

- Alan Watts

All the violence and fighting is due to intolerance and misperception.

Angry people want you to see how powerful they are. Loving people want you to see how powerful you are. — Chief Red Eagle

It is not enough to wish from time to time that you could be free of samsara. That idea must pervade your stream of thinking, day and night. A prisoner locked in jail thinks all the time about different ways of getting free—how he might climb over the walls, ask powerful people to intervene, or raise money to bribe someone. So, too, seeing the suffering and imperfection of samsara, never stop thinking about how to gain liberation, with a deep feeling of renunciation. – Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche from the book “The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva”

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. — Khalil Gibran

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. — Mark Twain

Don’t be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out. — Mooji

There is not one scrap of [your body] that was with you 10 years ago. It has all been rebuilt, reorganised, completely repaired and renewed. Then who are you? You are a pattern, you see. You are a process that is identifiable and recognisable. You face in a certain way. You hair in a certain way. You eye in a certain way. And you behave in a certain way. So we recognise you. — Alan Watts

No hay ni una pizca de [tu cuerpo] que estuvo contigo hace 10 años. Todo ha sido reconstruido, reorganizado, completamente reparado y renovado. ¿Entonces, quién eres? Eres es un patrón, que se ve. Eres un proceso que es identificable y reconocible. Te enfrentas de una manera determinada. Tu cabello de una manera determinada. Tu ojo de una manera determinada. Y te comportas de una manera determinada. Por eso te reconocemos.
- Alan Watts

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

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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

Nisargadatta Maharaj

M: Each moment contains the whole of the past and creates the whole of the future.
Q: But past and future exist?
M: In the mind only. Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only….
Q: Your reduction of everything to dream disregards the difference between the dream of an insect and the dream of a poet. All is dream, granted. But not all are equal.
M: The dreams are not equal, but the dreamer is one. I am the insect. I am the poet—in dream. But in reality I am neither. I am beyond all dreams. I am the light in which all dreams appear and disappear. I am both inside and outside the dream…I am what I am before, during and after the dream. But what I see in dream, l am not.
Q: If both dream and escape from dream are imaginings, what is the way out?
M: There is no need of a way out! Don’t you see that a way out is also a part of the dream? All you have to do is to see the dream as dream.
Q: If I start the practice of dismissing everything as a dream where will it lead me?
M: Wherever it leads you, it will be a dream. The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere? Just realise that you are dreaming a dream you call the world, and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all, or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done.
— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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.