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Luiz Bonfá ✨💖

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O tempo foi o meu mestre Que me ensinou a curar Passei três dias de bruço Debaixo do Maitá Quando eu me alevantei Eu no tranco dou pra curar

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Maha Prajña Paramita Heart Sutra

Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, doing deep Prajña Paramita, Clearly saw emptiness of all the five conditions Thus completely relieving misfortune and pain. Here Shariputra, form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form; Form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form. Sensation, conception, discrimination, awareness are likewise like this. Here Shariputra, all Dharmas are forms of emptiness: Not born, not destroyed; not stained, not pure, without loss, without gain. So in emptiness there is no form, no sensation, no conception, no discrimination, and no awareness. No eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, and no mind; no color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, and no phenomena. No realm of sight, no realm of consciousness, no ignorance and no end to ignorance, No old age and death, and no end to old age and death, No suffering, no cause of suffering, no extinguishing, no path, no wisdom and no gain. No gain and thus the Bodhisattva lives Prajña Paramita. With no hindrance in the mind. No hindrance, therefore no fear. Far beyond deluded thoughts, this is Nirvana. All past, present and future Buddhas live Prajña Paramita And therefore attain Añutara-Samyak-Sambodhi. Therefore know Prajña Paramita is the great mantra, The vivid mantra, the best mantra, the unsurpassable mantra It completely clears all pain. This is the truth not a lie. So set forth the Prajña Paramita mantra, Set forth this mantra and say:

Gate Gate Paragate! Parasamgate! Bodhi Svaha! Prajña Heart Sutra.

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Mountains and Rivers

The sound of the stream

Buddha’s long, broad tongue

and the form of the mountains

his pure body

10,000 verses through the night

In the morning how will I explain this

to others?

- Dogen, via Michael Stone

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The Bell and the Blackbird

The sound of a bell

Still reverberating,

or a blackbird calling

from a corner of the field,

asking you to wake

into this life,

or inviting you deeper

into the one that waits.

Either way

takes courage,

either way wants you

to be nothing

but that self that

is no self at all,

wants you to walk

to the place

where you find

you already know

how to give

every last thing

away.

The approach

that is also

the meeting

itself,

without any

meeting

at all.

That radiance

you have always

carried with you

as you walk

both alone

and completely

accompanied

in friendship

by every corner

of the world

crying

Allelujah.

- David Whyte

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Nantes. ~2015

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U-zhaan×環ROY×鎮座DOPENESS / 七曜日

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10 GREAT PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES FROM HENRI CARTIER BRESSON

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

While we’re working, we must be conscious of what we’re doing.

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

Of course it’s all luck.

As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one’s own originality. It is a way of life.

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven’t left any holes, that you’ve captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn’t go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.

Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm – the relationship between shapes and values.

Photography is nothing–it’s life that interests me.

…it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

– Henri Cartier Bresson 

Via The Inspired Eye 

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Anne Carson - Short Talk on Major and Minor

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Otways, VIC

and my happy place (for reasons pretty obvious).

Instagram:  @williambroadhurst

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OINO

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Life lesson.

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Slick surfaces

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33 years today, picture with mushroom shaped waffle and cute grandpa in Sevilla. Happy as Larry.

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