Beneath the Bodhi Tree
the Buddha reached a state of being
beyond Fear, Desire, and Duty,
and was unmoved by anything
that appeared before him,
and available to everything
as being on equal footing to him.
Degree of importance disappeared.
Preference no longer existed.
Bias and prejudice,
racism and sexism,
were nowhere to be found.
The Buddha was "as one thus come."
As one just born.
With no opinions, judgments or expectations
to cloud his perceptions.
He saw with right seeing,
knew what was what
and what was called for
and was able to respond spontaneously,
in the moment
with the gifts of his original nature
and the innate virturosities
(The things he did best)
that were his to share
in doing what needed to be done
where/when/how it needed to be done
no matter what,
from that point on.
Being enlightened
is being intuitive
and allowing intuition
to lead the way
without concern for any of the things
that produce attraction or revulsion
or "tilt the table" in favor
of certain outcomes.
What needs to be done
from the standpoint of "disinterested"
intuition alone?
How do we become disinterested enough
to engage our intuition on those grounds alone?
That is what the Buddha did under the Bodhi Tree.
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 
Beautiful photo…As in this image above…our conventional life in this world appears very real, we could be fooled if we did not ‘know’ that it was merely an illusion, a reflection of a more substantial reality. The symmetry and perfection of this image illustrates the incredible beauty inherent in existence, whether real or an illusion.
My feeling about the ‘disinterested’ intuition is that it is not as much ‘disinterested’ as detached with the outcome. There is enough sincere interest to contemplate and understand, otherwise it may be impossible to sustain the daily life at conventional level in this world. But the interest is limited to the appearances and conventions, does not go deep enough to grasp on to the objects as meaningful or permanent. Instead we find meaning in the reality…knowing that every appearance points to its reality, every object reflects that reality on which it depends, without which it cannot be, from which it is sustained…just like in this image. Disinterested in the reflection, knowing it as such, recognizing its reality, through intuition!
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Very well stated! Thanks!
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I enjoyed your message today. Thanks. Are the swans really a photo or a product of AI? I’m seeing a lot of indistinguishable subject matter on line these days. You did post something with AI background in the past. Didn’t you?
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This image is one swan copied and flipped vertically, and that pair is copied and flipped again, and flipped horizontally, and merged face-to-face, all without AI, but with plenty of Photoshop.
But I do rely on AI a lot (through Photoshop) primarily in expanding the actual/natural borders in an image and producing an outcome that is more pleasing to my eye than the original. And I use aperture and shutter speed and ISO settings to manipulate the image “in camera” to produce an outcome that is more pleasing to my eye than the image would be without those steps. So what you see is what I want you to see and not what was there. I am going through all my old photos currently, creating “new” images daily, which keeps me “in the business” and compensates for the arthritic knees and fore-arm crutches which “grounded” me and led me to sell all of my proper camera equipment this past October, leaving me with my iPhone for my “really/actually new” stuff. But I still get to use Photoshop even for that.
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thanks for that. I thought that this image was just too perfect. Keep enjoying your interests and talents. As John Lennon wrote, “whatever gets you through the night, is alright, alright.”
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