Buddhist Works

 

Lesley edited Essence of Mind, a series of talks by Zen Master Sen Shin (Queensland Zen Centre), and was English Language advisor and proof-reader for the bilingual Dhammafarers, a photographic interpretation of verses by the Buddha and distributed internationally to raise funds to support hill tribe children in Thailand. The following verses are new translations of traditional verses.

 

As a single slab of rock
will not budge in the wind
so the wise are not moved
by praise, by blame.

 

Owning nothing
free from regrets about anything
free from being hooked in to anything whatsoever
that the world might offer you to believe in –
you are at peace.

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To come to a great forest
and to dwell all alone
is so deeply, deeply pleasing.
Here I will accomplish my task!

Dhammafarers: A Photographic Journey of the Wayfarers was published by Dhammagiri Foundation, Bangkok, 2012. Photograph credit: Drew Nichols, Seeds, photograph, c 2016