I had a long-time love affair with my film Nikon F3's. Like all true loves, it was mutual. But with digital it is so different, for now my Nikons are inherently fickle and need constant stroking
I read of “the age-old Zen tradition of art as teaching.” But then I think of the millennia-old paleolithic tradition of painting as healing. Teaching is for the mind, healing is for the heart.
To be a clear channel for the Spirit World does not mean that the Soul which receives the message does not hear it clearly, but rather that the ego will clearly communicate it to the physical
It is the Soul that communes with God and then, as the Muse, brings the Message into the world. Never exactly as received, always distorted by the ego – exactly as Determined.
“The Buddha of the deeper Buddhism is not Gautama … but simply the divine in man. Chrysalides of the infinite we all are: each contains a ghostly Buddha, and the millions are but one.” -- Lafcadio
Avalokiteshvara: She who looks down on those in suffering. She is “Great Compassion.” As Lafcadio Hearn writes, She “is the dream of the Indian Paradise.”* She is the Loving Mother smiling down on us. She can be as
Every man-made object seemingly has two spirits: that of the man and that of the made. And the two are one, for all is The Spirit.
I'm holding this old raku bowl – Reverently. The spirit of the unknown craftsman, long dead, lives on through it, in it. I can almost feel his hands as I turn the bowl in my hands,
I am often given what seem, at least to me, to be wonderful insights and understandings. As happens, I suppose, to many people as they get older and mature somewhat. I could just sit here with
My word matrophilia, love of the mother, can be used as love to the mother and as love from the mother. For we only love as we feel loved. We love our mothers as we feel
