#buddhism

[stupid-twink-girl]

[mactiir]

my buddhism audiobook paused mid-paragraph for a startling length of time and my arts major ass was like "Wow. What a powerful commentary on stillness." (my phone had died.)

[thezenangel]

[e-n-d-a-s-h]

Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.

"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.

“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."

More here.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[divinum-pacis]

A damaged lying Buddhist statue is pictured inside a pagoda following a devastating earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, April 3, 2025. As of April 10, at least 3,600 victims have been recovered. REUTERS/Stringer

[tracetheradianceback]

"After the ecstasy, the laundry”

—Jack Kornfield