Category: Photojournal
The water gun shaped as a sentient being made me think… What do I load myself with? Just water (and…
Busy hands with multiplied actions. Busy with extended compassion. Calm palms with collected stillness. Calm with unified wisdom. (In each…
Maitreya* Bodhisattva, the loving one, contemplates how to guide beings with love… reminding us not to dread helping others, that…
Economy of shape Economy of lines Economy of face But still expression But still compassion But still gracefulness (Picture of…
Wrathful flames of Wisdom burning away raging passions, Acala is the Immovable Wisdom King. (不动明王) The fearsome Destroyer of Delusion.*…
The Cintamani*… fulfills any wish in concord with the Dharma, represents the boundless power of the Dharma, reminds us to…
The first picture… the Buddha at rest (with eyes closed?) The Awakened One… always in peaceful repose. The second picture……
Three Perspectives of a Fatherly Buddha Image From Chapter Three of the Lotus Sutra: I tell you, Shariputra, I am…
Skanda Bodhisattva faces the Buddha in the main shrine, because he guards the Buddha. Skanda Bodhisattva faces the last page…
Kindly Guanyin Homely Chenrezig Motherly Avalokiteshvara ‘My mother is Guanyin to me when she prays to Guanyin for me.’ –…
Eyes glaring. Fists clenched. Brows frowning. Muscles rippling. What are the Vajrakumaras ‘mad’ at? Not you, or me, or himself,…
In a bus… Where to? For what conventional reasons do you journey? So what when you get there? In a…
The first picture: favourite view at home: open shelves of stuff for opening the mind The second picture: favourite view…
Penguin books’ designs are getting really clever and cool these days. Gone are the days of Penguin’s stuffy bookish image….
A Buddha image on the computer reminding me to blog with compassion and wisdom, reminding me to surf with compassion…
I’ve handled plenty of real guns before, while serving obligatory National Service in the Navy as a gunner cum seaman,…
It struck me that the Hannya mask (left picture) I bought in Japan resembles Batman’s mask (right picture: DVD box…
There was a solar eclipse yesterday. Traditionally, the Chinese (and even Indians) call the phenomenon ‘the heavenly dog eating the…
Three intriguing reads from 2008, which remind me of Jianxie’s reviews: The Atheist Delusion: http://moonpointer.com/index.php?itemid=1738 The Beginning of Faith: http://moonpointer.com/index.php?itemid=1737…
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