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Playing hide and seek with a shrine cat

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Early snowy morning in Kawai shrine, Kyoto, Japan.  Photography by Damien Douxchamps on Flickr

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Fixations spawn thoughts that provoke compulsive acts — emptiness stops fixations. … When things dissolve, there’s nothing left to say. The unborn and unceasing are already free.

Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Batchelor tr. (Ch 18)

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The main image of Thousand-Armed Kannon Bodhisattva ( 千手観音菩薩) at Sanjūsangendō Hall (三十三間堂) in Kyoto in 1880, with Kannon’s entourage gathered around the main image in a cluster instead of spread out throughout the long gallery as at present

Hand-colored albumen print by Kusakabe Kimbei (日下部金兵衛) (1841-1934)

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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of the infinitude.

Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (via philosophybits)

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An English-language pamphlet from Sanjūsangendō Hall (三十三間堂) in Kyoto, founded in 1164 by the military leader and courtier Taira no Kiyomori (平清盛), featuring the myriad images of Thousand-Armed Kannon Bodhisattva (千手観音菩薩) within the temple’s oblong main hall 

Acquired at the temple March 19, 1994

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Shinran Shonin & The New York Buddhist Church.

This statue was originally located 2.5km northwest of the epicenter of the first atomic bombing in Hiroshima. The statue survived and was sent to NYC as a testimonial to the horrors of nuclear warfare and a hope for peace.

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My eyes being hindered by blind passions, I cannot perceive the light that grasps me; Yet the great compassion, without tiring, Illuminates me always.“

Shinran Shonin (Koso Wasan 95)

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“Fudō Myōō“ by Torii Kiyotada IV (鳥居清忠), 1916, from the series “Eighteen Famous Kabuki Plays” 

Color woodblock print on paper

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As yet there is no skepticism worthy of the name. Real skepticism would have to begin and end with the assertion of and demand for an infinite number of contradictions.

Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments (via philosophybits)

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One of two Niō guardians (仁王) at the gate of Kongōji Temple (金剛寺) in Owase, Mie Prefecture, dating to approximately the 17th century and donated to the temple in 1928

Photo by Steve on January 1, 1997

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’22.10.29 若宮神社、春日大社にて

前の投稿の続きです。摂社の若宮神社から本社の春日大社南門方面へ向かいます。まだ夜明け前なので春日さんの門は閉じられています。人のいない境内をゆっくり撮らせてもらいながら静かでちょっとミステリアスな空気を吸い込んでみたり･･。

空に星が見えていたので撮ってはみましたがやはり下手ｗ。サイドからの外灯でゴーストも出てるしｗｗ。

着到殿付近を撮っていると、空が白み始めました。鹿さんも出てくるだろうと、ぼちぼちと飛火野へ向かいます。

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