When you face difficulties start with anything you can do. When you are able to grasp the situation, you will surely be able to notice something you can do,
Perfect Liberty 2022.12
Sometimes in life we have to step back, and let the world stand still .. allow new possibilities to present themselves.
photo.PL Japan
Time to contemplate, think about the twelve months we have just enjoyed. Seems it was only yesterday we were saying goodbye to 2022. How was your year, you content with how far you’ve progressed? It is a journey isn’t it. Each day a new adventure. New opportunities.
Before entering a place of meditation/prayer/worship… in Japan, there are places to ceremonially wash prior to entering t he dedicated space for showing appreciation/gratitude.
We all have our own way of preparing for and entering into a new year. Whatever your tradition(s) you are wishes all the best of everything in the coming year, Good Health, Prosperity and above all Much Happiness
PL Precept # 1 Life is ART
PL Precept # 20 Live maintaining equilibrium between mind and matter.
PL Precept # 21 Live in Perfect Liberty
Oyashikiri
To visit the Okinawa New Year Festival Sim, to see the shops, the temple/shrines and the landscape of Japan, the Okinawa New Year Festival is open, there will be celebrations later in January, If you want to visit a traditional tea shop, or see what the inside of a home is like.. this is the place to visit and explore. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ryukyu/43/7/28 every day it gets busier as word spreads. Enjoy!
Finding a balance between past and the present. – Find a good balance between your present and past experiences.
Appreciate the strengths as well as the shortcoming in others.
and today’s thought.. PL. day 23rd. Once you’ve set out to do something, it is your job. If you accept a task, made the choice, took the option, whatever, own it.
In PL we believe that when things happen to us, always there is a meaning, or a reason, our actions, behaviours brought us to the/that moment.
We are not cast in stone, we are not without feelings, nor are we unaffected by the world around us. Change is the only constant in life, each day, each day, brings a new NOW.
Oyashikiri
Bom dia everyone, here we are mid-week, how joyful is that. Happy Wednesday ! Share a smile it is your gift to the world
” Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing ” Mother Teresa
So pretty, so bright, little dandelion
you are the Bee’s delight
no matter where you grow,
your golden glow
will beckon
and of course, euphorbia polychroma
the dense tuft of surprisingly green leaves
and lovely bright yellow bracts
reaching for the skies
the magnolia tree is preparing to shine
in a day or two
these delicate fuchsia buds will open
the deep defined leaves of the ivy
have started their climb
soon the buddha will be covered
not smothered,
but dressed in a living cloak or vest
next to the corkscrew hazel
this Amur maple has
started to protest the long winter
and is showing her strong desire
to break free and thrive again
all around
new growth abounds
the ground has come alive
and so my dears, have I
for like the seasons
each day is a new beginning
as the bees stir and begin their quests
the delicious dandelions
awaits their visit
Yay another day has begun
Happy Wednesday everyone!
Namaste – Oyashikiri
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Tome todo con sentimiento de gratitud
Accept Everything With Appreciation
Did you know that a honey bee will visit over 2 thousand flowers in a day if it needs to! That is perseverance to get a job done.
Could this be where we got the saying, “busy bees”
Sea una persona capaz de agradecer todas las cosas que acontecen ante sus ojos.
Aquellos que agradecen mucho son felices.
Today is the 21st and in PL our evening service is about appreciation, and giving thanks.
Today’s lesson
Become a person who can be thankful for anything that happens to them.
A person who is always thankful is a happy person.
Namaste Oyashikiri
Into the world you came
a fresh tender seedling
protected by the elements
you grew into a young man
strong,determined and resourceful
you married, had a family
and in turn, you sheltered
and gave your children the tools
they would require to grow
and succeed in/on their journey thru life
then one day, with your 100th year approaching
your work on earth was done
you were called away
your journey here was over
now…. your children
are left to mourn and say goodbye
saying goodbye is not the same for everyone
nor does each child really have the same memories of what was
for each child is unique, born at different times
their lessons, their knowledge base vary
often … the distance in their thinking
and the process to the solutions are and can be miles apart
The reality is that the Divine energy that connects us all
appears in different forms to each and every one of us
our past is ever-present in our moment
and our moments are always NOW
There is no real beginning or end
We either are, or we are not.
when love is pure,
when love is true
it is endless
closure, is a figment
of the mind.
namaste
oyashikiri
A monastery in Paro Bhutan called the Tiger’s Nest.
My day started with what I was finding to be a very vexing problem. I was doing a project in Photoshop, (software program) and for some reason, something that I knew I could do, wasn’t happening. No matter what I did or how I tried to make it work, it wasn’t working. Stubborn to a fault, I was determined to get this project done, and off my “To Do list”
To reach the Tiger’s Nest one must travel a very winding and steep path up the mountain. It is easily done when one takes the time to know the route, and to listen to the more experienced traveler. When one is stubborn, we don’t always reach out, we instead waste time by repeating the process that we aren’t doing right in the first place.
A call to a wonderful talented friend in the UK. set me back on the path, this time with better coordinates. I had interpreted the numbers wrong at the very start, I assumed,…. based on that assumption, everything else I did was not working. My friend is a born leader/teacher, she didn’t do it for me, she redirected my thinking so that I was working with the right numbers, in so doing the calculations worked.
There are times when we need to reach out… we need to allow the input of another “voice” Not to tell us what to do, but to guide us in making the right choices.
Namaste – Oyashikiri
BRAVE THE CLIMB TO THE TIGER’S NEST Taktsang Palphug, commonly known as Tiger’s Nest, is a seventeenth-century structure clinging to a mountainside a dizzying 10,200 feet above Paro Valley. Why the name Tiger’s Nest? Because it’s said that in the eighth century, Guru Rinpoche flew to this exact spot on the back of a tiger
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That in the sky, the heavens above, there is no east/west, north/south, it is the human need for words and direction, that these distinctions were made. Then over time, the mind believed it to be true… Because it was said, does not make it so.
Buddha “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by Your anger.
PL Principle # 5 I will not get angry at anyone or anything.
In PL (Perfect Liberty), PL Precept #4 Being Annoyed Limits your Expression,
PL Precept #5 is One’s Self Is Lost by Being Emotional.
The picture above is of a boulder with indentations, found on the grounds of Shikoku temple. Japan. It is said that if one hits it with another rock in different places, it will give a sound of various musical notes.
Namaste – Oyashikiri
*artist in Japan, Ojisan Jake
“Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike, each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”
Gautama Buddha
Always
live with hope
in your heart
Your soul will be enlightened
when you learn
not to complain
without suffering
without fear
without crying.
do not be attached
but do not walk away
life is for living
each joy
each emotion
is a sign
that you are alive
trust in the moment
a new memory
is being born.
Q
Namaste – Oyashikiri
When we live the PL way, we live in the moment, and we experience all of what life has to offer. We are students of life.
PL Principle #1 I will live paying careful attention, putting Makoto (sincerity) into ALL I say and do.
Saturday I had planned to stay home, and work on my blog. That was my plan for the day, the Universe had other ideas.. mid morning I found myself on the highway headed out of town, towards a thrift shop about a 20 minute drive from where I live, on a super highway. Back roads would have taken twice the time or longer. I zipped along with no idea of what lay ahead. As the miles flew by my mood got lighter, my thoughts clearer. The day was a charmer, clear, cool and brisk.
As my journey continued, I found myself driving along country roads, past farmers fields, stretches of open road with nothing but plowed fields with their light dusting of snow. There were areas of woodlands, with creeks and the odd boulder or two. As the scenes before me changed so did the thoughts in my mind. Instead of jumbled and tossed around one on top of the other,they were spaced out, calmer, and more focused.
From my first destination, I had planned on another destination that was across country back roads to another non profit location, south west of my original starting point. I was almost there, when to my surprise I decided to head north up a highway that would lead me home instead of further away. OK I thought, I’ll just visit this other shop that is on the highway once I’m in the city.
When I was driving through a very small hamlet, where the grocery store once was, I saw large Chinese lettering, and a cars stationed in front of the building. I have driven by this building often enough, when it was a grocery store, we had stopped once so I could get water. It had been vacant now for some time. With no thought at all, I turned in and parked. Walked up to the door to knock, only to have it open in welcome as I arrived.
I had arrived in time for a special service and lecture by a visiting monk from China (Mongolia). Who knew! The member who spoke to me was very gracious, and when another member arrived who spoke English arrived, I was helped to “dress” for the service (they participants wore special robes to show their respect while in the temple) and how to hold my hands when chanting. (no I had never chanted before, nor had I ever attended a Buddhist service) Yes the service was in Chinese, and NO I do not speak Chinese.
In PL (Perfect Liberty) -PL Precept 11 – Always be with GOD
Saturday, I was living PL Principle #1 – I will live paying careful attention, putting Makoto into all I say and do.
and PL Principle #3 – I will live with a mind of appreciation towards others and things.
Take the road to wherever it may lead,
where you are is where you need to be
Trust, believe and be set free (Q)
Namaste – Oyashikiri
if you would like information on the Ottawa Amitabha Buddhist Society of Canada, their contact information is amtb.ottawa@yahoo.ca (613) 821-3181
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