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The Buddha’s Last Instruction“Make of yourself a light,”
said the Buddha,
before he died.
I think of this every morning
as the east begins
to tear off its many clouds
of darkness, to send up the first
signal – a white fan
streaked with pink and violet,
even green.
An old man, he lay down
between two sala trees,
and he might have said anything,
knowing it was his final hour.
The light burns upward,
it thickens and settles over the fields.
Around him, the villagers gathered
and stretched forward to listen.
Even before the sun itself
hangs, disattached, in the blue air,
I am touched everywhere
by its ocean of yellow waves.
No doubt he thought of everything
that had happened in his difficult life.
And then I feel the sun itself
as it blazes over the hills,
like a million flowers on fire –
clearly I’m not needed,
yet I feel myself turning
into something of inexplicable value.
Slowly, beneath the branches,
he raised his head.
He looked into the faces of that frightened crowd.— Mary Oliver, House of Light
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Rolling Clouds at 10,000 Feet Above the Swiss Alps
“Every now and then, when you’re asked to put away the electronics on a flight it’s worth bending the rules to keep one, the camera, out for an extra few minutes. Especially during those last 10-15,000 feet of final approach where the vistas can potentially be striking. Case in point: this dramatic cloudscape we captured of clouds rolling over the Swiss Alps on our descent into Geneva Airport for the 2011 Geneva Auto Show. Captured on a Canon 7D with Tamron 18-270mm lens @ f6.0 & UV filter.”
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| ♕ | World of Fairy Tales | by Janez Tolar | via shogunpassion
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