Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) Seward Park, Seattle, US #Birds #Aves #Woodpeckers #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
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Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) Seward Park, Seattle, US #Birds #Aves #Woodpeckers #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus) Seward Park, Seattle, US #Birds #Aves #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
Narrow-winged Damselflies (Family Coenagrionidae) Made this gorgeous picture in June this year, but only have the family name and not the species name. Seattle, US #Entomology #Insects #Wildlife #Nature
Luang Por Sumedho gave this Dhamma talk on September 15, 2025, at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK. Is Consciousness the Ultimate Reality? | Ajahn Sumedho | 15.09.2025 youtu.be/Ix7yPCKAviY
For the #internationaldayofpeace, ICT invites you to reflect on the words of the Dalai Lama and give thanks to those around the world who have dedicated their lives to promoting peace and #humanrights.
Largest Caucus in House Endorses Bill to Block US Bombs to Israel www.commondreams.org/news/block-t...
TODAY is International Day of Peace “On this International Day of Peace, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.” ~ Ban Ki-moon
#Buddhism #Bodhidharma #Zen
#LightsOut
Thank you so much!
On our way back home to Seattle! Mount Tahoma (Reinier) Taken from the I5 highway, while driving. #MountTahoma
Thanks! I Must be wrong than, guess they are both visible from the I5 somewhere after Vancouver, WA.
2. or lungta, by channeling our inner Obi-Wan Kenobi. May the force be with you.
Inside each of us is a wellspring of strength and goodness, but connecting to it can be tricky business when we’re overcome with negative emotions.In this clip, Pema shares a delightful story and demonstrates how we can tap into inner strength [...2] #Lungta youtu.be/s-Rz9TEZJ_Q
Thoughts arise and pass away, The preceding no different from the succeeding. If the succeeding thought does not arise, The preceding thought cuts itself off. Song of Mind (Xin Ming) Translated by Sheng Yen Goodnight everyone
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Great Egret (Ardea alba) Netarts, Oregon, US #Birds #Aves #Egrets #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
Reg-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) in fall colours! Cape Lookout, Oregon, US #Birds #Aves #Blackbirds #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
Some vegetation in the way but could not move because that would have chased the chipmunk away.
So Happy to see a chipmunk, had seen them before long on a hike on mnt Tahoma/Rainier but now able to take a picture. Interesting to see those big filled up cheek pouches. #Rodents #Mammals #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
White-crowned Sparrow, Adult (Zonotrichia leucophrys) Cape Lookout, Oregon, US #Birds #Aves #Sparrows #Songbirds #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
Western Gull (Larus occidentalis) Minutes before seeing the Sea lion at the beach. #Birds #Aves #Gulls #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #Oregon
To see a Sea Lion at the beach was quite a surprise for me! Identified by inatural as: California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) Cape Lookout, Oregon, US #Sea #Mammals #Nature #Wildlife #Oregon #Washington
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) Cape Lookout, Oregon, US #Birds #Aves #Sparrows #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
3. Her call to action centers on justice, equality, and freedom for millions.
Albanese argues that international complicity has enabled what she calls a genocide and a collapse of the international legal order. She urges world leaders to move beyond words, and highlights acts of solidarity by workers, students, and communities who reject complicity.
How the (governmental) world is complicit in Genocide, not only by looking away, but also by providing political, financial and military support to Israel. The Shame of our time. There is also courage from ordinary people, doctors, dockworkers... youtu.be/jjRMAhl81Gk
2. Protesters call for sanctions and recognition of Palestine, as medics highlight the deadly toll on Gaza’s health workers.
Dozens of Swiss doctors launched a hunger strike outside parliament in Bern, demanding tougher action on the Gaza war. Wearing blood-stained white tunics, they accused Switzerland of hiding behind neutrality and failing to act against Israel. [...] youtu.be/kEpqkDf0G5c
They have quite a character.
A bit Blurry picture, but my first common yellowtroat warbler, female. Cape Lookout, Oregon, US
#Buddhism #Consciousness
Steller Jay on our camp site, was very interested in the bread crumbs. Cape Lookout, Oregon #Birds #Aves #Jays #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
White-crowned Sparrow, Juvenile (Zonotrichia leucophrys) Cape Lookout, Oregon, US #Birds #Aves #Sparrows #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) Netarts, Oregon, US #Birds #Aves #Pelicans #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) Netarts, Oregon, US #Birds #Aves #Kingfishers #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
Steller Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) Cape Lookout, Oregon, US #Birds #Jays #Aves #Wildlife #Nature #Photography
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) Cape Lookout, OR, US #Birds #Aves #Osprey #Wildlife #Photography
Love Shantideva! 🙏
Shantideva
At least five species invertebrates. The Sea star might be our favorite Maybe its this one: Ochre Sea Star (Pisaster ochraceus) #invertebrates #Seastar #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
Giant Green Anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica) Cape lookout, Oregon, US #invertebrates #Anemone #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
Theravada school of Buddhism
In the fog Western Gull and Juvenile (Larus occidentalis) Cape Lookout, Oregon, US #Birds #Aves #Gulls #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #Beauty
We could think this picture has failed, but the bird is there and recognizable. Actually i believe it is a nice picture, a bit dark arty, like a painting. Wrentit (Chamaea fasciata) Cape Lookout, Oregon #Birds #Photography #Aves #Tits #Wildlife
3. Albanese warns that continuing to enable or ignore this reality, especially amid Israel’s ongoing genocide, risks a collective moral failure of humanity.
She stresses that this system survives through global complicity, as universities, research centers, pension funds, banks, charities, and even the UN normalize the occupation under the guise of neutrality. [..3]
Francesca Albanese highlights how Israel’s occupation has fostered an exploitative economy—built on stolen Palestinian resources such as water, land, quarries, and offshore gas—while forcing Palestinians into dependency. [..2] youtu.be/i5Nbcighgfw
Although ~ Padmasambhava https://justdharma.org/although-padmasambhava/ #Padmasambhava #realization #enlightenment #wakefulness
That's a wonderful song, thank you.
White-crowned sparrow, juvenile (Zonotrichia leucophrys) Seattle, US #Birds #Aves #Sparrows #Songbirds #Photography #Wildlife #Nature
Thanks! 👍
Northern Pintail (Anas acuta) Andrews Bay, Seattle, US #Aves #Birds #Ducks #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
At the Gaza Tribunal, British legal scholar, Ralph Wilde unveils the legal imperative for states to urgently dismantle Israel's unlawful occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, as declared by the ICJ. youtu.be/SsYAgEK0ya4
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) Seattle, US #Birds #Aves #Sparrows #Songbirds #Photography #Wildlife #Nature
Muskrat in Andrews Bay (Ondatra zibethicus) #Rodents #Mammals #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
"The first three fetters—ego, cultural conditioning, and doubt—are all products of the human mind," Ajahn Sumedho explains in this insightful video. He describes the path to stream entry (sotapanna) and how investigating these artificial constructs leads to [...] www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtm4...
Insight meditation or vipassana and a qualified teacher.
2. (The British occupation of Palestine. Where the historical wrongs may have started...)
nteresting read here: Palestinians to ask UK to own up to ‘law violations’ between 1917 and 1948. Petition, drafted by human rights lawyers, says war crimes were committed during British occupation of Palestine. #Palestine #Justice [...2] www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
#ThreeFetters #Buddhism
2. [...] insight into ultimate reality
"The first three fetters—ego, cultural conditioning, and doubt—are all products of the human mind," Ajahn Sumedho explains in this insightful video. He describes the path to stream entry (sotapanna) and how investigating these artificial constructs leads to [...] youtu.be/qtm4ukylqm4
After a failed attempt to catch a fish we have to get out of the water again and could look like this. Taken a few days ago. Opsrey (Pandion haliaetus) #Birds #Aves #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #Osprey
When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare. The Buddha--Sutta Nipāta 2.271
European countries were quick to take a stand against Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, but they remain silent when an Islamic people like the Palestinians is slowly but surely being exterminated. #Palestine #Gaza
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But a week later the warning "adult content" was removed after reporting the wrong of the warning. It was just Guru Milarepa 🙃
Thanks! Same to you. 🙏
Had that experience also when posting a picture of Milarepa.
Hope this is true and not just a rumor, not confirmed yet by the commercial media. #GazaAidFlotilla
The real enemy ~ Sakya Trizin https://justdharma.org/the-real-enemy-sakya-trizin/ #SakyaTrizin #anger #enemy
Meditate on bodhicitta when afflicted by disease. Meditate on bodhicitta when sad. Meditate on bodhicitta when suffering occurs. Meditate upon bodhicitta when you get scared. — Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen (1894–1977) youtube.com/shorts/tU0rj...
With thanks to Lama Surya Das for sharing.
With thanks to Red Pine for Sharing initially.
Bodhidharma facing the wall. #wallgazing
A flower in the middle of a war www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtod...
Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) Today at Seward Park, Seattle, US #Birds #Aves #Sparrows #nature #Wildlife #Photography
Jeffrey Sachs is an American economist and public policy expert, currently a professor at Columbia University. He previously served as the director of The Earth Institute at the university. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzw...
Theorbe player Fred Jacobs performs Passacaglia composed by Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger. youtu.be/FlZfmYYWRZk
How coyotes are adapting to urban life and thriving in U.S. cities youtu.be/xPZ3Ddw3fCU
Scottish Guitarist Matthew McAllister plays 'I Know a Lark's Nest' by Carl Neilsen, arranged by Per-Olov Kindgren. For more great guitar music please subscribe to the channel and stay tuned for lots of great videos from the Gallery. youtu.be/hIBgdhV2_N8
For Zen students a weed, which for most people is worthless, is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art. Weed ~ Shunryu Suzuki
“I don’t try to understand why they did it, or who did what. God sent us here to love them as they are—those who are repentant, those who are not, those who are in denial, those who are innocent,” Sister Mary Thomas said. “We just look at who they are now,” Sister Jeanne Thomas added.
But are the women on Texas’s death row evil? Many of them have a history of abuse and trauma, and suffer from severe mental-health issues. The nuns of the Sisters of Mary Morning Star try not to think about the crimes that led the inmates to death row.
Are you being entrained into Buddhism for practicing mindfulness? While it is the heart of Buddha's teachings, you do not need to be a Buddhist to be mindful. Cultivating presence and practicing mindfulness is a universal practice for all humanity to take part of. youtu.be/k0ghDlN9jxE
In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable. – Chögyam Trungpa
Appreciating the recognition of our weaknesses ~ Tai Situ Rinpoche https://justdharma.org/appreciating-the-recognition-of-our-weaknesses/ #TaiSituRinpoche #recognition #weaknesses
The Buddha often likened his teachings to a raft — a means of crossing the river of suffering to reach the far shore of liberation. Once the far shore is reached, there is no need to carry the raft further. Night night sleep tight.
It's important to not idealize the mindfulness practice. Use these emotions as opportunities for awakening, not as a prison for your mind and lifestyle. youtu.be/4ITw5tD9zDQ
Picture made one year ago. Also went in April this year, but feels now long, long time ago.
#Lakota #Nature #Heart #Humanity The Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that a lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to a lack of respect for humans, too. ~ Luther Standing Bear, Lakota, 1868-1939