I had a chance to help make Miso over the weekend. After crumbling the Koji yeast(?), mixing in salt, then mixing in the steamed and mashed soybeans we rounded the mix into balls. The ball-making part of the process made me think of a saying from last year's Buddhist calendar.
#MisoTsukuri #BuddhistCalendar #Calendars #味噌作り
https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/520940510574323087

July 5th, #EduardoGaleano's #ChildrenOfTheDays and a #BuddhistCalendar have me thinking of #SaintFrancis and #Laughter. July 4th has me wanting to learn about #Humboldt's freind #Bonpland and loving neighbors.

Impure Heart
Unseen Buddha

The heart is impure
The Buddha is unseen

This is a great calendar to ponder while on the toilet and feeling literary. The translations should be less precise and grammatical and more vague and poetic: I keep thinking of #WilliamEmpson and his #SeventTypesOfAmbiguity and his treatment of #NewCorn by #TaoChien
#proverbs #BuddhistCalendar #Buddhism

"... proverbs go in pairs which say opposite things."
--- Bertrand Russel
https://russell-j.com/PROVERB.HTM
#BertrandRussel #proverbs #BuddhistCalendar #Buddhism #spcialism

"The focused gaze is the averted gaze" --- John Dower
#JohnDower #BuddhistCalendar #GeneralEducation #specialism #専門ばか #proverbs

> Life without.. gratuitousness becomes a form of frenetic commerce, in which we are constantly weighing up what we give and what we get back in return. .. he “makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good” (Mt 5:45)..“When you give alms, do not let your right hand know what your left hand is doing, so that your alms may be in secret” (Mt 6:3-4)...“Without cost you have received, without cost you are to give” (Mt 10:8).
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html#_ftn31
#Buddhism #BuddhistCalendar #FratelliTutti

> Beautiful flowers fall and return to their roots while their delicious fruits decay on the ground.
--- #BuddhistCalendar
> I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots to make earth.
--- #RobinsonJeffers, USA #poet #ShinePerishingRepublic #Buddhism
https://www.antiwar.com/orig/jeffers1.html