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Thursday, 11 June 2015

hotei / laughing buddha / god of contentment and happiness

golden GOJI hermitage

midnight / 11-12 / june / 2015

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12 FOTOPRINTS / TREES / DORCHESTER / MARCH 2020

bernard hemensley GOLDY HERMITAGE WEYMOUTH ======================

Hasty cheese sandwich in hand...hurrying to catch 253 bus to Abbotsbury on spur of the moment in conversation with brother on phone from Oz...hoping to see Marie Laywine at her studio and have a half-decent chat before she goes to Java. It's a beautiful day and quitessentially English in Dorset...it's raining. A passenger on the bus is talking loudly about ballet and modern dance...the rain ever harder is flooding the gutters and the bus throws a wash much like a speedboat at sea...Langton Herring...Rodden, where the poet Elsa Corbluth may still be alive and well despite illneses of late...she elicited praise from Ted Hughes for her poetry years ago and was a winner of the Bridport Prize one year...i have not seen her in a while...Marie Laywine's studio is near the heart of Abbotsbury...only 25 minutes to get there...she is sitting doing a crossword from The Daily Telegraph...we greet each other and she protests the fotos i am taking good-naturedly...i sit across the table from her and she offers me some cheese pieces left over from her own lunch and tells me about her "project" in Java and her "magic cupboard".."what's in it?" i ask..."Magic, of course," she says...i wish, by magic, i could have stayed all afternoon...there was a great humour between us...but...

Marie Laywine was born in Canada but has been in Dorset for over 20 years. Her studio is an old chapel in the 600 ye...
WHY DID THE BUDDHA LEAVE HOME? WHY DID BODHIDHARMA GO TO THE WEST? WHY DID DOGEN GO TO CHINA?

* * * * * * * * * * * GOLDY HERMITAGE 14 / september / 2015 ************************ ...
FANX ARE DUE LAWRENCE WHEELER, FOR THE INSPIRATION, FOR THESE NITEWORX

* * * * * * * * * bernard hemensley GOLDY HERMITAGE 14 / 09 / 2015 *******************
"When all dharmas are the Buddha-dharma, there are delusion and enlightenment, practice, birth, death, buddhas, and sentient beings. When the myriad dharmas all are without self, there is no delusion, no enlightenment, no buddhas, no sentient beings, no birth, and no death. Since originally the Buddha way goes beyond abundance and scarcity, there are birth and death, delusion and enlightenment, sentient beings and buddhas." DOGEN ZENJI.

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IF i HAD TO PICK A FAVOURITE FOTO FROM THIS MORNING'S MOOCH AROUND WEYMOUTH, THIS WOULD BE IT

*********** GOLDEN GOJI HERMITAGE 8 / JULY / 2015 ********************
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