Even Mount Fuji in the distance is dwarfed by the monumental tree…
Art
Buddhist art
Virtue, Calligraphy by Hakuin
This oversize rendition of the character for “virtue” (toku 悳) reflects the exuberant spiritual energy projected by Hakuin Ekaku, who was one of the foremost proponents of the revival of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism in late Edo Japan. Originally composed by Chinese historian and scholar of Confucianism Sima Guang (1018–1086), the inscription reads:
Photographs of India and Burma, 1852-1860 by Captain Linnaeus Tripe
Captain Linnaeus Tripe (1822-1902) was a pioneer of early photography who created an outstanding body of work depicting the landscape and architecture of India and Burma (now Myanmar) in the 1850s. This major presentation of Tripe’s photographs most striking views taken between 1852 and 1860.
Everything comes from mind, by Bodhidharma
Your real body is pure and impervious. But because of delusions you’re unaware of it.
Great Wisdom Sutra from the Chū sonji Temple Sutra Collection
This chapter from the Great Wisdom Sutra (Daihannyakyō; Sanskrit: Mahaprajnaparamita) is one of more than five thousand scrolls of Buddhist scripture.
Meditation for Geeks
One for geeks…
The Path of Wisdom, by Ajahn Sumedho
Talking about universal love is a very inspiring subject. There is nothing wrong with contemplating universal love, either. But if that’s all we are doing, then it can be merely a whitewash over inner pain and anguish. We might want to love all beings and live in a world of unity and total love. That might be a very appealing idea. What is it that prevents us from that unity? If we trace it back, we will find it’s the ignorance that we have about ourselves…
Trek the mountains of Khumbu.
Visit the Everest Region of Nepal, homeland of the Sherpa people. Short film around Two minutes.
Buddhism now 