"-For the entire life people act like a moth attracted to the flame, completely hallucinated, completely deceived, not knowing the flame will burn, that it is completely other than what it appears.

Even though they get burned, while they still have the power to fly they will continue to go towards the flame.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche

perhaps it is their ability to look out and never lose sight of within, to turn the ear away from whispers of halftruths- their ability to turn their back on us.



all of our uncertainties do not faze them,
all of that which glitters and promises instant gratification, they look in compassion as it already begins disintegrating.
they live the longterm, the constant wind, the eternal principles,


and leave us to paint sordid colours to this world we inhabit,
obscuring further and further our own vision,
and marring deeper and deeper the form of Truth.

lack of pictures and ideas. hence-

...
/like immersion; being wholly and purely within another. what is necessary for one to truly experience through another.
/the processes that guide development of our attachments, connections, relationships.
/remembering people; who and what are we really remembering and reminiscing about.



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question #1.

theres another kind of wondrous travelling; traversing the internal mind via textural soundscapes.
learning of another world, seeking through another sense, being with/of/in another.
.
//rose tinted view
and satellites that compromise
the truth

but i wanted more
with the cuts and the bruises

faith
it drives me away
but it turns me
like a stranger's love
(faith) rockets through the universe
it fuels the lies and feeds the curse

:: muse
.



[luang prabang.] alms giving




[vientiene. nong duang]
faith is believing is what you know to be false.
-time too swift. margaret poynter


[[from sau yan
[[paris. notre dame]

create-ing.

suppose art is communication, suppose communication is really a basal drive to connect to another.
suppose the core web of our being is with other beings.

i instinctively feel that is too simplistic, too anthropocentric. but it doesnt negate the what and how of our interrelationships: person to person, culture to person, culture to culture.
and it doesnt undermine the importance of it all.

[vientiene.]
commercialism can still inspire, no?

[vientiene.]


[[from rachelc; www.thechampagnerose.blogspot.com]
[ nyc. central park]
idealistic interpretation: the subtle shadow play invite us to rise above, and imagine according to the eden of nature.


[[from www.lensculture.com/ambrosi.html. and alecia]
sensuousness, strength and gentle tension; curves and rigid lines- reflect our own contortions and complexities as we present our selves, and strive to comprehend others.

if only we could be as blatantly honest and clear as (it) the words of our soul written out all over our bodies.
or more practically, if we could only express boldly and listen as hungrily.

//The Body as Dream series
is based on the certainty
that our reality exists
because we’ve given it a name,
that our representation of the world
is as important
as its existence a priori
and that we,
along with the world we’re a part of,
are defined by our words.

The writing
is a continual repetition of words
which form an entirety
of illegible signs
that envelop the skin,
cover and replace it.
Light or ponderous, winking or solemn,
all of these images represent
the same curious astonishment
at what we are.

visual smörgåsbord. deutsch-style.

in the dearth of conclusive certainties from one's standpoint in the swirl that is laos/nongduang/yepteam,
one heads to the heady lights of inspired irreverence-

and finds:
the fight against convention, the protest against mundanity, of ideas and self-idenitity forced out through colours and cloth;
the basal cry of self+fun?


[stilinberlin.]

[stilinberlin.] what of the yearly gushing parade of self assertion and affirmation?


[berlin. potsdamer platz] 06. gay pride.

perhaps fashion: if for no use other than delight and fun, it has done its work, and fulfilled its only obligation.

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