Daydream

Photo: Central Oahu Plain

(c) Bruce Behnke 2011

Seeing Clearly II

Okay, so we're paying attention now, right?  


So how clearly do we see?  What is real?  Is what our brain telling us accurate?  Or is it a shorthand perception-- a quick glance, a quick assessment, a quick conclusion which is wrong, wrong, wrong.


Our temple's Dharma Talk today was about right view.  Much of the talk centered on perspective and understanding as a critical part of right view.  But is not "no shortcuts" part of right view as well?

Photo: Narita San Buddhist Temple

Narita, Japan

(c) Bruce Behnke, 2011

On Individuality

Individuality is freedom lived.

~Writer/Artist John Dos Passos

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

~Physicist David Bohm

The Wisdom of Rivers

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.                                

~ A.A. Milne in The World of Pooh

photo:  Rio Cuale

Jalisco State, Mexico

(c) Bruce Behnke 2011

Moon Setting on Banderas Bay

Creative Leadership

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.  ~Martin Luther King Jr.

Photo:  (c) Bruce Behnke 2011

Pelicans over Banderas Bay

Jalisco State, Mexico

No ego

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
                                                                                 ~Martin Luther King Jr.

Interrelatedness

     Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
                                                                               ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Pay Attention VIII

In Hawaii, thousands of bee colonies have died off.


Recent news reports have described nine out of ten wild hives dying, and 30-35% of domesticated hives dying.


Michael Kliks, president of the statewide Hawaii Beekeepers Association, said, "It's going to end in disaster. It's almost too late."


The official explanations include: infestations of varroa mites, nosema spores, small hive beetles and the weather.


Are we paying attention yet?

Photo:  (c) Bruce Behnke. At Foster Botanic Garden, Honolulu, Hawaii

News information from  Honolulu Star Advertiser, 1/09/11

Details

Sometimes, in photography, as in life, the details get in the way.  Dispensing with them can allow us to see more clearly what is important.

Pay Attention VII

Noble nature

All that is noble
 is in itself of a quiet nature,
 and appears to sleep
 until it is aroused and summoned forth
 by contrast.                         ~Goethe

Nature's Fractals

Seeing Clearly

You shouldn't chase after the past 
or place expectations on the future. 
What is past
    is left behind.
The future 
    is as yet unreached. 
Whatever quality is present 
you clearly see right there, 
    right there. 
Not taken in, 
unshaken, 
that's how you develop the heart.
                    ~The Buddha