Selfless Self Help

Meditation

[gardenofthefareast]

Baby Elephant Resting in Floral Border by Hayley Brown

[unconsumption]

The Consumerist Christmas Tree, from luzinterruptus.com:

Once again … we counted on the help of neighbors to carry it out. First, we ask them to donate their shopping bags to us and then we invited all those who wanted it – individuals, neighbor associations and students from local schools – to help us assemble the bags with which we shaped this new tree.

7 days of workshops, plus 2,000 donated bags filled with recycled plastic from nearby businesses, a structure made of prefabricated material and 4 days assembling, were required to put up this over 6 meter tree which was set up at the junction of two main streets, just across the street from the municipal health center.

The installation’s idea was the same as last year’s: on one hand, to represent, in a symbolic and universally recognizable way, the overconsumption of plastic bags; and, on the other hand, the squandering that typically takes place during these holidays which have set aside the religious and traditional meaning of these holidays to turn them into a real invitation to uncontrolled consumption.

More at Mocoloco.

[spacelaughter-blog]

Zen meditation in Newburyport

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For anyone in the Boston area, or anyone interested in meditation...

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Meditation and philosophy classes North of Boston

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(via My new book!)

[darksilenceinsuburbia]

Jason Hackenwerth. Pisces.

Giant sculpture made of 10.000 ballons.

Website

[ksjanes]

Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging. ~Yeshe Dorje

[chuckhistory]

Car. 

[spacelaughter-blog]

Dharma!

[chasingthegreenfaerie]

Tibetan Prayer by liam_davies on Flickr.

[spacelaughter-blog]

Class tonight from 4-530,meditation and chat, Newbury MA

[haughwout]

[neaq]

Visitor pictures: Just because the Aquarium is under construction and Myrtle is swimming in the penguin exhibit, doesn’t mean you don’t get to see little blue penguins!

Thanks for sharing your pic, haughwout:

Feeding the little Blue Penguins at the New England Aquarium

[darksilenceinsuburbia]

Pat Perry.

http://patperry.net/

[kelledia]

The rainbow body of Padmasambhava.

[kilsoquah-deactivated20130202]

Today is Guru Rinpoche’s day! May all beings recognize their own Buddha nature!

Om A Hum Vajra Guru Pema Siddhi Hung

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