92 / self portrait

a favourite self portrait, am standing directly in front of

a mirrored temple wall in Thailand, only a bit of hair

is visible (perhaps if you click on it?)

56/ overheard

When I saw this wall in Ayuthaya (before adding the gold)

there was just the speech bubble, 
a piece of plaster in the midst of a large old brick wall; 
am in two minds whether to keep the

change, it was already so eloquent.

Adyashanti

54/ past patterns

Did this a few weeks ago, in the middle of some

old pattern showing up; it somehow helped enormously

~ digital sand play.

It resolved, or became conscious, & passed out of memory

The background photo at right is of mirror tiles in a Thai temple,

a feature in many wats.

03/ lineage

One of my great grandfathers was a sea captain,
I never thought to ask whether that meant sail,
while there was still someone to answer. We understand
some stories in our bodies ~ birth, sickness, old age
& so on, as the Buddha taught; what about seasickness?
& all that conditioning that was passed down,
so that we believe our way of perceiving (as if it's real!)
though we may be seeing quite differently to others.
How can we tell, even?

01/ start here

A friend & I were speaking about how 
a couple of older people might still have 
something to say in this so-called new world.
Perhaps a word & image form of consequences
~ we could pass the pages back & forward, see where it goes.

I'd like to find out how we know that we mean 
the same thing when we say imagination, rainbow, touching,
beauty, memory... or whatever.
(Is there any real difference between
you & me?)

above: I'm about 8, we are camped in the outback, I'm
wearing one of my mother's old hats, in a story of my own.
The picture is mostly about 
a description of memory ~ how it's so totally subjective.

Can you see yourself at 8? 
Or do you hear the smells or taste the sounds of then? 
How does imagination work in you?