#jose basso

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José Basso: Constelación, 2016

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Jose Basso.

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José Basso

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- By Jose Basso

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

José Basso, Chile, 1975 ::  Crescent moon with a yellow field

(Eduardo Hopper)

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Five ways to rest the mind in meditation ~ Milarepa Rest in a natural way like a small child. Rest like an ocean without waves. Rest within clarity like a candle flame. Rest without self-concerns like a human corpse. Rest unmoving like a mountain. – Milarepa quoted in the book “The Tibetan Buddhism Reader” ISBN: 978-1590308349

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Crescent Moon at Sunset by Jose Basso.

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- By Jose Basso

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Jose Basso, 1949 -

Chilean artist. :: The Other Side Of Art

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In the altogether magnificent The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (public library), writer Pico Iyer — who has known the beloved spiritual leader since adolescence and, by the time he began writing this book, had visited him in his exile home for nearly thirty years — describes how the Dalai Lama begins each day: [By] nine a.m. … the Dalai Lama himself had already been up for more than five hours, awakening, as he always does, at three-thirty a.m., to spend his first four hours of the day meditating on the roots of compassion and what he can do for his people, the “Chinese brothers and sisters” who are holding his people hostage, and the rest of us, while also preparing himself for his death. Compressed into this humble and humbling morning routine is the entire Buddhist belief that life is a “joyful participation in a world of sorrows.” [from Brain Pickings]

Life is joyful participation in a world of sorrows.   I think that sums things up rather beautifully.