Jim Lo Scalzo, Sunrise above the Salton Sea. Thank you, kateoplis.
What I wear is pants. What I do is live. How I pray is breathe.
Thomas Merton (Thank you, parabola-magazine)
What is this mind?
Who is hearing these sounds?
Do not mistake any state for Self-realization.
Continue to ask yourself:
What is it that hears?
Bassui (Thank you itsalldhamma & dharmasnapshots)
Lithograph by Viggo Langer. The Bibi Heybat Mosque around 1910-15. The mosque was destroyed at the command of Stalin in the 1930s. Thank you, firsttimeuser.
Bruno Requillart, b. 1947 - L’If et le parapluie - Pas de Calais, Mediatheque, Paris. Thank you, The Blue Lantern
John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, 12th century icon (St. Catherine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai).
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Celescalating the Skyrescape Ladder
“Again, Hell is a series of concentric circles, and purgatory is a triangle above that. And now we learn — to our relief — that there is a vertical axis that descends from the apex of the triangle down to earth, the hereitblows…”
—from the devilishly clever One Cosmos.
Andreas Gursky, Rhein II, 1999, C-print mounted to plexiglass in artist’s frame, 81 x 140 inches
Andreas Gursky: Swimming Pool, Ratingen, 1987. Thank you melisaki & gelorobinson
