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MuddyWater.NETp3

"May we
exist in muddy water with purity like a lotus, thus we bow to Buddha."
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Aloft, Valle de Bravo, Mexico (12-4-10)
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Flower vendor, Cuernavaca, Mexico (12-10-10)
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Earth laughs in flowers.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Balloon Vendor I, Cuernavaca, Mexico (11-7-10)
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...Jesus blows up balloons all day
Sits on the porch swing watching them fly...
– Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Levon
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Balloon Vendor II, Cuernavaca, Mexico (11-7-10)
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...And Jesus, he wants to go to Venus
Leaving Levon far behind...
– Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Levon
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Tepoztlán Cemetery, Tepoztlán,
Mexico (11-2-10)
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs;
– Emily Dickenson
After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes
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Playboy, Cuernavaca, Mexico (11-19-10)
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If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill
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Parroquía de la Resurreción del Señor y Santa María
de Guadalupe, Cuernavaca, Mexico (11-7-10)
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Isis, oh, Isis, you mystical child
What drives me to you is what drives me insane
I still can remember the way that you smiled
On the fifth day of May in the drizzlin' rain.
– Bob Dylan
Isis
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Handcart, Cuernavaca, Mexico (11-7-10)
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We've taken all you've given
But it's gettin' hard to make a livin'
Mr. President have pity on the working man
– Randy Newman
"Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)"
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Handcart, Cuernavaca, Mexico (11-7-10)
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We've taken all you've given
But it's gettin' hard to make a livin'
Mr. President have pity on the working man
– Randy Newman
"Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)"
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San Miguel Chapel, San Miguel Acapantzingo, Morelos, Mx.
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San Miguel Acapantzingo is a colonia or area of
Cuernavaca, Mexico. It was originally an independent pueblo (town) before
being incorporated into Cuernavaca. It is the colonia in which the editor
currently lives. The San Miguel Chapel is located across the street from a
popular lush botanical garden and indigenous herb museum. The chapel is open
during the day and is an ideal site for meditation and rumination.
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Public Water Faucet, Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mx
(11-2-10)
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From the bathing tub
I throw water into the lake –
Slight muddiness appears.
– Kawahigashi, Hekigodo
(1873-1937).
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Cemetery, Tepoztán, Morelos, Mx
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Empty-handed I entered
the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going --
Two simple happenings
That got entangled.
Like dew drops
on a lotus leaf
– Kozan Ichikyo
Died February 12, 1360, Age 77
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Día
de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) 2010

Plaza de Armas, Cuernavaca,
Morelos, Mx. (10-30-10)
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"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to
change costume
and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?
– Chuck Palahniuk
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Emiliano Zapata shrine
Día de los Muertos, Plaza de Armas, Cuernavaca,
Morelos, Mx. (10-30-10)
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Emiliano Zapata (1879 - 1919) rose from humble beginnings
to become a hero of the Mexican Revolution. The Mexican Revolution (1910 - 1920)
was a class struggle and civil war in Mexico generally pitting the poor
campesinos against the oppressive regime of Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz.
Zapata is especially revered in Morelos, Mexico, the place of his birth.
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Emiliano Zapata shrine
Día de los Muertos, Plaza de Armas, Cuernavaca,
Morelos, Mx. (10-30-10)
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Es mejor morir de pie, que vivir de rodilla.
– Emiliano Zapata (1879 - 1919)
["It's
better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees."]
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Guitar Player, Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mx (11-2-2010
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Corazonadas
deep memories of the earth
emerge triumphant
– Inés Hernández-Ávila
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Tashi Gomang Stupa, Crestone, Co (9-25-10)
("The Stupa of Many Auspicious Doors" – thus named
for Buddha's 84,000 paths to enlightenment)
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A STUPA is a Buddhist monument erected as a commemorative shrine and site of
pilgrimage. Stupas are typically filled with hundreds of thousands of Buddhist
religious relics. Buddhist practitioners circumambulate (walk around) stupas
while reciting mantras as a form of spiritual discipline.
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Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Crestone, CO (10-9-10)
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