Osho Zen//2 of Fire//Possiblities

The eagle has an overview of all the possibilities contained in the landscape below, as he flies freely, naturally and effortlessly through the sky. He is really in his domain, very grand and self-contained. 

This card indicates that you are at a point where a world of possibilities is open to you. Because you have grown more loving towards yourself, more self-contained, you can work easily with others. Because you are relaxed and at ease, you can recognize possibilities as they present themselves, sometimes even before others can see them. Because you are in tune with your own nature, you understand that existence is providing you with exactly what you need. Enjoy the flight! And celebrate all the varied wonders of the landscape spread before you.

Mind can accept any boundary anywhere.  But the reality is that, but its very nature, existence cannot have any boundary, because what will be beyond the boundary?  again, another sky.

That is why I am saying skies upon skies are available for your flight.  Do not be content easily.  Those who remain easily content remain small – small is their joys, small is their ecstasy, small is their silence, small is their being.  But there is no need!  This smallness is your imposition upon your freedom, upon your unlimited possibility, upon your unlimited potential.

Your Friday Agnes...

Miya Ando//Luminous Void

In my work, I create quiet, abstract, meditative environments as a study of spiritual expression. Ultimately I am interested in the study of subtraction to the point of purity, simplicity and refinement. I am Japanese and Russian-American, a descendant of Bizen sword maker Ando Yoshiro Masakatsu and was raised between two worlds: among sword smiths-turned Buddhist priests in a Buddhist temple in Okayama, Japan and amongst the redwoods in coastal Santa Cruz, California. I am influenced by meditation, nature, geometry and the ethos and aesthetics of Zen Reductivism. I work primarily in metals and light, themes in my work are impermanence, transformation and transcendence.

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Jazmín Berakha//Embroidered Meditation

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Nature Time Lapse//

M. Ward//The First Time I Ran Away

M. Ward//Chinese Translation

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Céleste Boursier-Mougenot//Sound Artist

Two sound installations untitled (series #3) and index (v.4) by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot create a special sonic atmosphere in EMPAC’s lobby spaces. The first involves floating bowls and glasses in several pools of moving water. As these objects touch, the space is filled with their fleeting, floating music. The other sounds moving through the lobby come from two computer-played pianos. The music is an articulation of EMPAC staff's typing activity. Software written by the artist maps linguistic properties to musical properties, translating letters, phrases, and punctuation into aspects of musical language like pitch, dynamics, repetitions, and chords. More here...

WayneThiebaud//ZenSweetness

Osho//Playfulness

the moment you start seeing life as non-serious,
a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears.
all the fear of death, of life, or love - everything disappears.
one starts living with a very light weight or almost no weight.
so weightless one becomes, one can fly in the open sky.

the woman in the card is celebrating the joy of being alive, like a butterfly that has emerged from its chrysalis into the promise of light. she reminds us of the time when we were children , discovering seashells on the beach or building castles in the sand without any concern that the waves might some and wash them away in the next moment. she knows that life is a game, and she's playing the part of a clown right now with no sense of embarassment or pretense.

when the Page of Fire enters your life, it is a sign that you are ready for the fresh and the now. something wonderful is just on the horizon, and you have just the right quality of playful innocense and clarity to welcome it with open arms.

from, the Osho Zen Tarot

SusanDerges//Azure

using the night as her darkroom, and the river or ocean as her transparency, Derges created extraordinary images by submerging positive photographic paper beneath the surface of the water.

a milliseconds flash of brilliant likght, controlled by the artist, fixed a brief moment in the waters constant ebb and flow onto the paper.

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ThomasRuff//Cassini

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EmmaDeClario//Ubiquity

Above us light.
Trees.
alive and growing.
Surviving.
And dead, used by us to carry electricity (light and connection).
Reaching upward, Regardless.
Reminding us of what is passing and temporary.
And yet is essential to spiritual survival.
The only difference between looking and not looking
is the choice
to let the light in;
or not





oils and beeswax on mobile phone photographs, printed on recycled acid proof paper, mounted on reclaimed and kiln dried old growth Australian timber.

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SnowyOwl//MajesticPatientHuntress

all photography// Ian Plant

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SnowBeforeSnow//RawOrganicZenDarkBeauty

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