Facets of a Diamond – Blog

To desire to be free of anguish (the Buddha’s First Noble Truth) is actually to increase our anguish, for the Second Noble Truth is that the anguish is caused by desire. The answer would seem to be that we should be altruistic, with no desire to help the other,

As the Buddha taught, our lives our anguish, because, I am led to believe, we do not Know our Innate Perfection, our Buddha-Nature, our Soul.

One way to the Soul is through outwardly-directed, altruistic, acts of High Creativity – for these come from the

A birthday is not so much the child’s as the mother’s.

Today my paintings, new born, are being displayed to the world. Not my day but that of my painting guides. Through me, they are painting again.

Today is their re-birth day.

There is a dark labyrinth through which we must find a way to come, at last, to the Soul.

Music, Art – all Creativity – can be the Golden Thread.

Always go beyond the guides
– to the Guide of the guides.

My two favorite trees:
one covered with lichen: eczema,
the other twisted: scoliosis.

Do I love them most
because they are like patients?

And is that why
I feel most loved by them?

Whatever I do affects the spirit within me. And whatever is done to me by another affects my spirit, as well as his own. Also, of course, all my actions affect his spirit.

So whatever anyone does affects everyone’s spirit. There are no isolated, solitary actions – just one Action with infinite realizations.

I am earth mother
to the spirit
growing within me,
evolving through me.

Aspiration:
the song of my heart
leaving my heart.

(With an apology to Buson.)

Ethical behavior:
when we see the other
as our mother of love.