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Buddha "Nature"
person
Don't believe everything you thinkThe liminal space Veteran
We all have Buddha Nature but did you know that nature also has Buddha? (Sorry, I don't know how to reduce the size of my photos)
The unfolding mind.
A photo of me meditating next to the dislodged head of a Buddha statue (you can see the curly hair and the topknot)
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Thank you @person I was wondering about the natural qualities of a Buddha and have come across a few very helpful lists lately, many rooted in the Uttaratantra
According to Abhidharma there are 18 unshared qualities of a Buddha:
Ten Powers, Four Fearlessnesses, Three Close-Mindfulnesses, and Great Compassion.
http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Eighteen_unshared_qualities_of_a_buddha
By learning the qualities of the Buddha we can help clear away that which limits us.
There are also the Four Perfect Knowledges http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Four_perfect_knowledges
Which for me helps remind me and reinforce the idea that the Buddha is in fact a social presence, working constantly for the welfare of beings. Nurture your true roots with virtue and blossom as does the lotus!
Even if it took a million years to become forever-free, it is worth it.
om wam gi shwari mum (peaceful manjushri mantra)
Here is a small Buddha I captured amongst the bramble and fern buddhas ...
Here's a contrived platitude: your Buddha-nature is your lack of nature.
The nuns are cleaning up after a natural disaster (me) accidentally stepped on their monastery.
The Enlightened One, Lord Buddha, the Monarch of all samsara was kind enough to make his presence known to me today.
Whereas when we carelessly presume to bend nature to our will, and impose monstrous and incongruous, ugly, defacing structures upon her beautiful countenance, we do so in such a mean, hurried and inexpert manner, that we remain horrified, astonished and aghast, when they collapse without apparent reason. But reason, there is. And the reason is that we hurry to appease the money gods, cut corners, use inferior material and inexperienced workers. Nature takes her time, does things "per bene", uses the best available materials and everyone is perfectly in command of the appointed task.
https://www.google.it/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-45193614
I am green.
It is a constant (thus far). Nature amazes me as it has its own language and teaching. Everything around us is an expression of its inner nature. Just as we are a projection of aspects of our delusion/buddha nature mix ...
https://www.dailyzen.com/journal/zen-mind-beginners-mind
Mother Nature's son Buddha Nature...
Sand impressions...water colour...(fresh water channelling its way back home)
There is no artist ...only art....
We all have Mara Nature too. and Nature has Mara...
Witness the deadly and for some, fatal mudslides in the south of Italy....
HH Emperor Dragonfly earlier today ...
OM MANI PEME HUM
For a short time the clouds had lost their way and returned to Mother Earth...