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Donkees's JournalNurturing Mind 🌿 the mind of treating all things as sacred.
Dogen: "Handle even a single leaf of a green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf. This is a power which you cannot grasp with your rational mind. It operates freely, according to the situation, in a most natural way. At the same time, this power functions in our lives to clarify and settle activities and is beneficial to all living beings"
Flowing
'The time-being has the quality of flowing. So-called today flows into tomorrow, today flows into yesterday, yesterday flows into today. And today flows into today, tomorrow flows into tomorrow.'
'In essence, all things in the entire world are linked with one another as moments. Because all moments are the time-being, they are your time-being.'
'Each moment is all being, is the entire world. Reflect now whether any being or any world is left out of the present moment.'
13th Century Zen Master Dogen on Being Time
https://tricycle.org/magazine/13th-century-zen-master-dogen-being-time/
Art by Kanahebi
Animation by Kanahebi
vimeo.com/698459270
'Sitting with Eyes Open in the Flames of the World'
Photo: Dobronosov
''The lotus that blooms in the fire is indestructible.''
https://dogeninstitute.wordpress.com/2022/01/09/sitting-with-eyes-open-in-the-flames-of-the-world/
Buddha Twirling a Flower 🌸 Revealing a World of Bliss
© Doris Mitsch
''All things merge, mix, create, and liberate each other. Nothing is separate and alone. This is how things are. This is compassion – not merely an extra something one of us feels for another, but existence itself. Being is by its nature sharing and loving. And we realize this not as a teaching a concept or a method we can work at and finally grasp, but through our mutual recognition, our mutual shared awakening.''
© Doris Mitsch
''Buddha's Dharma talk on Vulture Peak includes no words. He holds up a flower and twirls it. This is his talk, – his demonstration of Suchness.
A commentary to the koan says that Mahakashyapa and the Buddha smiled one smile: between them there was one smile. They had perfect accord, perfect harmony, perfect relationship, perfect trust. Essentially, there were not two of them.''
© Doris Mitsch
''You have to hold up a flower. There really isn't a teacher and a student- and at the same time we have to have these relationships and all that goes with them. This is how we activate the One Great Causal Condition of compassion and love. And we must activate it; this is our human obligation, our role, our task, and our joy.''
https://tricycle.org/magazine/twirling-a-flower/
By Norman Fischer, Artwork by Doris Mitsch
WINTER 2006
Dogen: ''A drop of water can reflect the whole sky''
Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water.
The moon does not get wet nor is the water broken.
Although its light is wide and great,
The moon is reflected in a puddle even an inch wide.
The whole moon and the entire sky
Are reflected on one dewdrop in the grass.
Dogen
🌸 ''The entire world is mind ground; the entire world is blossom heart ...
Because the entire world is blossom heart, the entire world is plum blossoms.''
Dogen (1253)
Excerpted from Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen Edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi 1985 🌸
Photo: А new mural appeared in the capital Obolon, Kyiv
Author: Sasha Korban
@NewVoiceUkraine
Photos: Hyperrealistic Pink Peonies Oil Paintings
In Maria Marta Morelli’s luxurious oil paintings, delicate peonies almost bloom through the canvas. The works represent the Buenos Aires-based artist’s fascination with the cycle of time and how flowers convey youth but also the “unbearable finitude of life,” she tells Colossal. “With their incredible beauty and freshness, although transitory, they fill us with hope and convince us that life is worth living.”
Morelli will exhibit her works at Art Revolution Taipei in May 2022, and you can follow her practice on Instagram. (via My Modern Met)
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/03/maria-marta-morelli-peonies/
There is also a memorial in Washington DC ...
...The Viburnum opulus red berries symbolize 'one's home and native land, blood, and family roots.' The Protectress Spirit in Kiev's Independence Square holds these same berry swags, and their symbolism is deeply rooted in ancient beliefs.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska have visited the Holodomor Memorial to Victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–1933 in Washington, the presidential press service has reported.
According to the report, the head of state and his wife put symbolic sheaves of wheat at the foot of the Memorial. After that, members of the official delegation of Ukraine honored the victims of the terrible tragedy of the Ukrainian people.
The Holodomor Memorial was unveiled in downtown Washington in November 2015.
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