We should be able to go into any art museum, look around and exclaim, “Buddhas, Buddhas, Everywhere!” Not just the paintings but, inspired by them, all the people. It has been said of Emerson that he
It could be said that if I first find my Soul I can then find my mother's – and others. Or, if I first find hers I can then find mine – and others. I prefer
“Scattered flowers are gone forever.” -- Issa (trans. Sam Hamill) As, too, my paintings.
To help the self to Know the Self is healing.
Gratitude is the Soul at work. So whatever you did for the grateful sufferer, basically, it was healing.
Our basic task in life is to come to Know our mothers as the Mother of Love, to live at last in the state of Belovedness. Not that she, in reality, needs to change, but rather
The more the creativity is altruistic, the more is it coming direct from the Muse.
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
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
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
