ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 1h*TSA agent at LAX "Ma'am, I'm going to have to touch your crystals. I'm just letting you know because people here are sensitive about that." #OverheardInLA 030 3
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 8hWe may never know the impact of our love. We can only respond to the need for love by tossing our care into the canyon of suffering like a pebble, accepting that we’ll never hear it land. 🖊️ Mark Nepo 📕 The Language of the Soul 📷 Maligne Canyon in Jasper National Park, Canada. 290 9
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 12/10/2026sometimes we encounter someone who shows us the Buddha within. Dave was one of those who did that for us 📿🪷 130 3
Reposted by ru 🪷bodhidave @bodhidave.bsky.social · 14/06/2026a still image of the moon at dawn over the Windhorse Zen Center main building, Friday morning 1201 20
Reposted by ru 🪷bodhidave @bodhidave.bsky.social · 13/06/2026dawn moon and early birds, yesterday Windhorse Zen Center (outside Asheville, NC) 6283 28
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 12/10/2026As we chanted this morning, "May his dharma work continue. May he find his true home. May all beings realize Buddhahood!" 290 9
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This morning marked the forty-ninth day since the death of Windhorse member Dave Collins. According to Buddhist tradition, we've been chanting for him every seven days since his passing and today was the seventh and final service. @bodhidave.bsky.social 7150 15
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026📿 49 days of the bardo @bodhidave.bsky.social may Dave move into the bliss with compassion guiding him 🪷 4110 11
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Sometimes you finally realise this deeper spirituality of feeling, presence, and feet-on-ground living, and the sound of the birds singing in the distance, and a total surrender to this one precious moment. 🪷📿 130 3
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Sometimes you don't get to be a Buddha Sometimes your spirituality has to shatter You have to lose your precious 'spiritual awakening' You just have to be a human being, You have no choice but to throw away all your second-hand ideas about the path 🪷📿 🖊️ Jeff Foster 📷 Wat Mahathat 3243 24
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"if what is offered isn't enough - - offer absence - salt isn't written on the menu but its absence is felt." *Yildiz Kenter 080 8
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Good Morning, Skylarks i will soon be deactivating this account 550 5
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Grant refuge now to all beings in the bardo. Protect them-- O Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, for the benefit of all be unsparing in your compassion and ability Hold all beings in the energy of your loving kindness and remain a steadfast guide through the passage of the bardo. @bodhidave.bsky.social 1160 16
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The Songs of Dzitbalché Ancient Mayan Poetry by Ah Bam Translated by John Curl 110 1
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026when i'm up at 5 a m to watch my darling Ava as she sleeps so peacefully it's as if her peace encompasses the entire suite 🪷 120 2
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026no one can hide from the dharma it breathes it listens it holds space 🪷 020 2
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026they said he had extended bouts of depression 😔 and loneliness 050 5
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026and we keep losing the greats 💔 though we know they go on to blissful realms 010 1
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026we are in the middle of a super spruce before returning to North Carolina 📷 Tim Walker #photography 190 9
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026at the risk of boring you i would like to share how i - or how the tao - discovered each other first, it was left behind on a seat in a small diner in nyc, i turned it in to the management second, i stepped out of a hired car onto the cover, it was wet and muddy, i went on third, The Way finds 110 1
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026 Longing not that I want to be a god or a hero just to change into a tree grow for ages not hurt anyone 🖊️ Czesław Miłosz 🎨 Wilhelmina Krutrök #art 0171 17
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"it doesn't make any difference where you start" 📕 Lila 🖊️ Robert M. Pirsig 0150 15
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Publishers aren't interested in niche books, they're looking for that audience that buys a book and sits it on a shelf for appearances. Have you read Lila? An Inquiry Into Morals? i just purchased it 📖 220 2
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has become the best-selling philosophy book of all time. In December 2019, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History acquired Pirsig's 1966 Honda CB77 Super Hawk on which the 1968 ride with his son Chris was taken. 190 9
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026good morning ☀️ 🪷 Pirsig took nearly four years to complete Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, writing most of the book while living above a shoe store in south Minneapolis, while working as a tech writer for Honeywell. He received 121 rejections before publication 120 2
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom." #ThichNhatHanh 0121 12
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of the mountain, or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - which is to demean oneself." 🖊️ Robert M. Pirsig 3110 11
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Attadipa saranam”: taking refuge in the island of self that is the practice recommended by the Buddha "My dear loneliness, I know you are there. I hope to take care of you." #ThichNhatHanh 📷 Paige Wilton #photography 3192 19
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026 the universe spoke today in flowers and i who was waiting on words almost missed the conversation 45316 53
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026on 9/9/01 or beautiful, loving Mim left us for the blissful realm. on 9/11/01 we were on a plane at Boston Logan Airport when everything started happening. we have chosen to believe she went ahead to help with so many others crossing over. 🪷💔❤️🩹📿 2181 18
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026on 9/9/01 or beautiful, loving Mim left us for the blissful realm. on 9/11/01 we were on a plane at Boston Logan Airport when everything started happening. we have chosen to believe she went ahead to help with so many others crossing over. 🪷💔❤️🩹📿 130 3
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Every sentient being is afflicted with a sadness and longing. It manifests individually and collectively. We are tasked to use this as a challenge in learning kindness and compassion for ourselves so we may also bless others with kindness and compassion. 🎨 Dewitt Jones title - Visual Haiku 2224 22
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart. *This poem is dedicated to the victims of September 11 and to their survivors. Names blown over the earth and out to sea. 🖊️ Billy Collins 2113 11
ru 🪷 @rae-dahl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026-excerpt- Names of citizens, workers, mothers and fathers, The bright-eyed daughter, the quick son. Alphabet of names in a green field. Names in the small tracks of birds. Names lifted from a hat Or balanced on the tip of the tongue. Names wheeled into the dim warehouse of memory. ↓ 1133 13