beautiful (brilliant)

 
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listen

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"Listen, shariputra,
form is emptiness and emptiness is form.
Form is not other than emptiness, emptiness is not other than form.
The same is true with feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness.

"Listen, shariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness.
They are neither produced or destroyed,
neither defiled or immaculate,
neither increasing or decreasing.

Therefore, in emptiness there is neither form, nor feeling, nor perceptions,
not mental formations, nor consciousness.
No eye, or ear, or nose, or tongue, or body, or mind.
No form, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no object of mind.
No realms of elements (from eyes to mind-consciousness),
no interdependent origins and no extinction of them
(from ignorance to death and decay).
no ill-being, no cause of ill-being, no end of ill-being, and no path.
No understanding and no attainment.


—Thich Nhat Hanh verion
from Awakening of the Heart
essential buddhist sutras and commentaries

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Gate, Gate, Paragate, Para Sam gate Bodhi svaha

Gate, Gate, Paragate, Para Sam gate Bodhi svaha

Gate, Gate, Paragate, Para Sam gate Bodhi svaha


Gone, gone, gone all the way

all beings gone together

into the light inside!

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Pandemic & Mythic Meanings of this Cultural Moment

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