Daily #WabiSabi #Zen #Buddhism

Something that's been concerning me for a long time is how people don't want to leave social media platforms, even when they turn more toxic. The term these days is "enshittified".

I, for one, really appreciate #Mastodon for allowing one the ability to migrate from one instance to another, thereby not losing one's ever-so-precious "social graph".

Another interesting example of not losing one's "Social Graph" (in a migration from one server to another) is #Deltachat, which uses "AEAP" ("Advanced Email Address Porting").

I think these awesome migration features should be praised more. Taking such control back, over one's social graph is no small victory these days. Such ease of migration is a bulwark against enshittification; it's the easy ability to more elsewhere.

Note: #Buddhism has a comparable tradition of such protection through migration: once monks and nuns gain their "independence", they are much more free to wander from one monastery to the next.

#paintings made by my fellow #artist friends with a lot of reds in them; msg me if you like any of these & want some information about them, all of them're available & affordable

4 paintings made by my local #artist friends; msg me if you could use a bit of red color in your place. #Art also makes a really nice gift 2 give someone you love too

Four #paintings with a lot of tranquil #green tones; msg me if you can envision one of these in your interior; all're different sizes & are affordable & easy to order

National Taiwan Museum Bronze Oxen in Taiwan

These two 90-year-old statues were once part of a Japanese Shinto shrine.#buddhism #shintoism #animals #statues #bronze #section-Atlas
National Taiwan Museum Bronze Oxen

These two're made by my pal who runs a small #art studio & #artgallery a few towns over from me, her nickname is Em, her formal first name is Suphannee; these two are really nice & large.

#artists #artist #artforsale #painting #paintings #interiordecorating #interiors #interiordecor #supportthearts #wildlife #animals
#catsofmastodon #catstodon #tiger #tigers #artnet #illustration #spiritual #spirituality #artistsonmastodon #mastoart #supportlivingartists #buddha #buddhist #buddhism

The topic of burnout was on my mind this evening, and then this crossed my path. A little gift.

https://www.lionsroar.com/i-vow-not-to-burn-out/

How wonderful is existence, to be one of the many emanations of a world always longing to know itself again whether in the skin of a frog, a rock, a rose, the sky, or me! We give and take and feel and think and breathe in all in our infinite variations and ever-living connectedness. Each of us has never been before and will never be again, and through us the world delights anew.

And what sweet, dark peace when this form, too, crumbles away, like a wave upon the rocks spraying back into the vastness it was always part of. What bone-deep surrender in relaxing back into the Oneness, releasing that lovely fleeting illusion of individuality like a butterfly that you may admire and enjoy, but never clutch in a crushing grip.

Bless the illusion that is life and the dream that is death! What is has always been and always will be. You are One and never alone, vaster than the limitations of your current form could ever dare to understand and you are forever. #TootEssay #Buddhism #Daoism #mysticism

Dream Yoga.

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Okidoki, we got a translation!
Ichikawa Hakugen's "A Side-View of Ikkyu's Insanity" an essay concerning Zen practice, philosophy, and the development of the monetary economy via sex work! A very interesting piece, tho the least explicitly anarchist of the ones completed. Much love!
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/a-side-view-of-ikkyu-s-insanity
#buddhism #anarchobuddhism #translation #japanese #仏教 #日本語 #anarchism #無政府主義

Here's 4 w/a lot of white tones in them, all were made by my #artist friends & myself; msg me if you're interested in any of these fine works you see below

Two works made by my friend Em aka Suphannee ---
Large-sized, painted with oil paint on canvas ---
msg me if interested, great deal on both of these ---

Bone Buddhas at Isshin-ji Temple in Osaka, Japan

This temple is home to a group of Buddha statues made from thousands of bones and ashes of the deceased.#statues #ash #buddhism #buddha #temples #section-Atlas
Bone Buddhas at Isshin-ji Temple

3 #paintings by Kib & one by Em aka Suphannee; available; msg me if interested in any of these really relaxing works ~

Happy Monday! Today I have a translation of the Heart Sutra into Quenya. It’s probably a pretty bumpy translation but should be considered a work in progress. Anyone familiar with Quenya want to give me some input?

https://voidcomm.net/heart-sutra-in-quenya/