Sufficient Conditions

Where: Vajrasana Retreat Center, Suffolk, UK
When: April 24, 2009

"The Buddha said that when conditions are sufficient something manifests and we say it exists...
...It is only our notion of being and non-being that makes us think something exists or doesn’t exist. Notions of being and non-being cannot be applied to reality."

Thich Nhat Hahn, No Death, No Fear

Cloud Drama

Where: Vajrasana Retreat Center, Suffolk, UK
When: April 21, 2009

Glittering With Gold

Where: Vajrasana Retreat Center, Suffolk, UK
When: April 20, 2009

The Guardian

Where: V&A Museum, London, UK
When: March 3, 2009

According to the V&A website:
"This wooden sculpture represents a Luohan, the name for a monk who acts as a guardian of Buddhism and is believed to have attained enlightenment through merit and virtue."

Pearly Petals

Where: Vajrasana Retreat Center, Suffolk, UK
When: April 20, 2009

Morning Meditation

Where: Vajrasana Retreat Center, Suffolk, UK
When: April 24, 2009

Willow

Where: Vajrasana Retreat Center, Suffolk, UK
When: April 23, 2009

Shiny

Where: Vajrasana Retreat Center, Suffolk, UK
When: April 22, 2009

Pausing

I'm away all week, on another meditation retreat, so there won't be anything posted until a week from tomorrow. But hopefully I'll be coming back with lots of new material, so that should be neat.

Gwen

Bark

Where: Kew Gardens, London, UK
When: December 29, 2008

When Spring Looks Like Fall

Where: Hampstead Heath, London, UK
When: April 14, 2009

Pieces of the Whole

Where: My backyard, London, UK
When: April 13, 2009

Vesuvius Views: Now With Added Drama

Where: Mount Vesuvius, Bay of Naples, Italy
When: March 21, 2009

Homecoming

Where: Hampstead Heath, London, UK
When: April 14, 2009

Frothy

Where: Queen's Crescent, London, UK
When: April 14, 2009

I Hear The Bells

Where: My backyard, London, UK
When: April 13, 2009

Color Colour Color!

Where: St. James Park, London, UK
When: May 19, 2008

Crap. I've typed "color" and "colour" too many times - I had to spell check it, because now those letters feel utterly unrelated to the word.

Rough Ride

Where: Solterreno, Vall de Laguar, Spain
When: January 30, 2009

Bench, Kite, Tree

Where: Primrose Hill Park, London, UK
When: April 7, 2009

Diaphaneity

Where: Bethnal Green, London, UK
When: April 1, 2009

How wonderful is that word? I love thesauruses. I know going to the thesaurus is often scorned as verbal cheating, but how else do you learn a word like diaphaneity?

Mother of Pearl

Where: Imperial Harem, Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
When: February 14, 2009

Palm Patterns

Where: Kew Gardens, London, UK
When: February 18, 2009

Fireworks

Where: Bethnal Green, London, UK
When: April 1, 2009

Don't Look Down

Where: Water Lily Pond, Kew Gardens, London, UK
When: February 18, 2009

The Road Home

Where: Almost back to Solterreno, Vall de Laguar, Spain
When: January 28, 2009

A Gift Received With Grace

Where: Bethnal Green, London, UK
When: April 1, 2009

Butter Me Up

Where: Bethnal Green, London, UK
When: April 1, 2009

They're wrinkly on the edges! I like that.

Where: Bethnal Green, London, UK
When: April 1, 2009

Truth Hurts

Where: Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
When: March 1, 2009

This statue depicts Truth ripping out the forked tongue of Lie. I think. I tried to look it up on the V&A website but I couldn't find it. But I'm pretty sure that's what it was.

Living in the Mother Country

Where: Buckingham Palace, London, UK
When: May 19. 2008

The Dark Is a Scary Place To Be

Where: Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
When: March 1, 2009

By the Seashore

Where: Davenport Park, New Rochelle, NY
When: July 16, 2007

This Country Is Ridiculous

Where: Somewhere in the vicinity of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, Uk
When: August 5, 2008

Morning Time

Where: Our old bedroom, New Rochelle, NY
When: November 12, 2006

Isengard

Where: Brugge, Belgium
When: December 13, 2008