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Powerful Buddhist photographs and images
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Powerful Buddhist photographs and images
Fukushima, 2011
"One should cultivate contemplation in one’s foibles. The foibles are like fish, and contemplation is like fishing hooks. If there are no fish, then the fishing hooks have no use. The bigger the fish is, the better the result we will get. As long as the fishing hooks keep at it, all foibles will eventually be contained and controlled at will." -Zhiyi
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the radiation is still all over japan ..no one discusses it due to the implications it has on financial woes.
Personally i wonder if all products coming out of japan now glow in the dark..
they want to dump the radiation water into the ocean..
powerful image dude.
Personally i wonder if all products coming out of japan now glow in the dark..
they want to dump the radiation water into the ocean..
powerful image dude.
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Not Buddhist per se, but still powerful and relevant to anyone's practice of compassion.
"One should cultivate contemplation in one’s foibles. The foibles are like fish, and contemplation is like fishing hooks. If there are no fish, then the fishing hooks have no use. The bigger the fish is, the better the result we will get. As long as the fishing hooks keep at it, all foibles will eventually be contained and controlled at will." -Zhiyi
"Just be kind." -Atisha
"Just be kind." -Atisha
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Colossus of Padmasambhava, 123 ft. (37.5 m) high in mist overlooking Rewalsar Lake, Himachal Pradesh, India.
"One should cultivate contemplation in one’s foibles. The foibles are like fish, and contemplation is like fishing hooks. If there are no fish, then the fishing hooks have no use. The bigger the fish is, the better the result we will get. As long as the fishing hooks keep at it, all foibles will eventually be contained and controlled at will." -Zhiyi
"Just be kind." -Atisha
"Just be kind." -Atisha
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At Saka Dawa eve in my hometown, after they finished their prayers in the local temple.
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How auspicious!
"One should cultivate contemplation in one’s foibles. The foibles are like fish, and contemplation is like fishing hooks. If there are no fish, then the fishing hooks have no use. The bigger the fish is, the better the result we will get. As long as the fishing hooks keep at it, all foibles will eventually be contained and controlled at will." -Zhiyi
"Just be kind." -Atisha
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I have long thought there is something unique about the work of Mongolia's Öndör Gegeen Zanabazar that makes him a towering master of Buddhist sculpture on a global level...perhaps uniquely so, at least in my opinion.
His works are at once lifelike and speak of something supramundane. A true "Renaissance man," he was also a writer of note, a skilled architect and designer, an esteemed poet, a highly positioned figure in Gelug history and hierarchy, and an adroit political dealer. Few in history anywhere, from any epoch, have straddled so many fields of human endeavor, and sat so close to the top in each.
His works are at once lifelike and speak of something supramundane. A true "Renaissance man," he was also a writer of note, a skilled architect and designer, an esteemed poet, a highly positioned figure in Gelug history and hierarchy, and an adroit political dealer. Few in history anywhere, from any epoch, have straddled so many fields of human endeavor, and sat so close to the top in each.
"One should cultivate contemplation in one’s foibles. The foibles are like fish, and contemplation is like fishing hooks. If there are no fish, then the fishing hooks have no use. The bigger the fish is, the better the result we will get. As long as the fishing hooks keep at it, all foibles will eventually be contained and controlled at will." -Zhiyi
"Just be kind." -Atisha
"Just be kind." -Atisha
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Computer-generated reconstruction of the enormous (and no longer existent) Shōkokuji Pagoda of Japan, completed in 1399.
No taller structure, religious or otherwise, would be built in Japan until 1968, over five and a half centuries later.
No taller structure, religious or otherwise, would be built in Japan until 1968, over five and a half centuries later.
"One should cultivate contemplation in one’s foibles. The foibles are like fish, and contemplation is like fishing hooks. If there are no fish, then the fishing hooks have no use. The bigger the fish is, the better the result we will get. As long as the fishing hooks keep at it, all foibles will eventually be contained and controlled at will." -Zhiyi
"Just be kind." -Atisha
"Just be kind." -Atisha
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Very niceFiveSkandhas wrote: ↑Sat Jul 10, 2021 9:30 pm Computer-generated reconstruction of the enormous (and no longer existent) Shōkokuji Pagoda of Japan, completed in 1399.
No taller structure, religious or otherwise, would be built in Japan until 1968, over five and a half centuries later.
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It depends where the source material comes from. I have a few Japanese Sharpening Stones. (Wet stones) for knife sharpening. They have slightly elevated radiation levels. However the manufacturer claimed that this radiation is naturally in the materials used for the stones. (I don't know if it's true.)Minobu wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 9:53 pm the radiation is still all over japan ..no one discusses it due to the implications it has on financial woes.
Personally i wonder if all products coming out of japan now glow in the dark..
they want to dump the radiation water into the ocean..
powerful image dude.
However the company does source the material from near Fukushima.
Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.