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Views…

Our Enemy

Our enemy wears the colors of ideology.

Our enemy wears the label of liberty.

Our enemy carries a fancy appearance.

Our enemy carries a big basked filled with words.

Our enemy is not man.

If we kill men, with whom shall we live?

~Pham Day (Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me by My True Names)

viewdiamondsutra

…views themselves are ideas or perceptions. Any perception has two parts: a viewer (subject) and that which is being viewed (object). A self view, a person view, a living-being view, and a life span view are all objects of perception. They are neither independently existing or permanent. Like everything else, they are of the nature of interbeing.

~Thich Nhat Hanh, The Diamond that Cuts through Illusion

scattered

Unable to sleep,

I gaze at the flowers of the bush clover,

as the dew forms on them from the long night,

till suddenly before dawn

they are scattered by the wind.

~Ise Tayu (K Rexroth & I Atsumi, The Burning Heart)

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No reset…

Each time we say or do something, write a line of poetry, disseminate an idea, send a letter, we go out in many different directions. Once we have set out in these directions, there is no way we can pull ourselves back to the place we were before.

~Thich Nhat Hanh (Understanding our Minds)

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black & white sunday: music

singing insects, too

make music

in this world

~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)

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I love being drawn by the music that fills the air as one wanders about town on a Sunday afternoon. Image submitted in response to Lost in Translation’s Sunday photo challenge.