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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 29, 2017 - 07:55am PT
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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Mar 29, 2017 - 08:04am PT
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Nice!
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goboy
Trad climber
san diego
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Mar 29, 2017 - 08:07am PT
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Mar 29, 2017 - 08:43am PT
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^^^ Nice
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Mar 29, 2017 - 08:52am PT
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 29, 2017 - 01:16pm PT
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wonderful contributions, thanks to all!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Mar 29, 2017 - 01:49pm PT
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larryhorton
Trad climber
NM
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Mar 30, 2017 - 03:57am PT
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Friends,
Each of these precious images remind us of a rare moment when we were graced to brush within a hair's breadth of Beauty, Love, and Truth—the elusive peace we've been seeking for countless lifetimes. When awareness is focused on what we love.
Yes, Bob, Beauty DOES Walk a Razor's Edge. But that edge is not a straight line—it's an infinite point, whose only form is depth, and it resides only in the center of universes that separate one edge of the hair from the other. And it's accessible only through grace.
Climbing is superb at focusing attention—it's why we go there. It's why we make illusory statements like, "I'll never stop climbing!". Illusory? Of course. All these attachments will be taken from us, one by one, or all at once. Only our attention will survive the cruelty of the dual worlds. And only when our attention is graced to land on something real, something that can never be taken from us, something eternal and so drenched with peace and unimaginable love that knows no condition, can we begin to glimpse what's beyond the near edge of the hair.
How wonderful to see so many celebrating their search here, in this way! Some more freely than others, but searching. Mind is always for getting/forgetting. Soul lives by giving. The more our attention escapes the clutches of mind and its passions, the more grace manifests.
I'm graced with a single image which I'd love to share here, but it exists for sharing only as a sheet of 4x5 film, and maybe that's for the best. It's called 'Beauty Walks a Razor's Edge', from a moment in 1982. Maybe this way, the unseen image will inflame a single—or even collective—imagination in a way that fits each one, perfectly.
Thanks for this level of participation.
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Mar 30, 2017 - 09:51am PT
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TY
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Mar 30, 2017 - 01:17pm PT
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Sometimes when the light is right and the creative urges flow, Josh can be the most surreal, the most tranquil, of places. I never get tired of how the light plays across the landscape.
TY
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 31, 2017 - 11:41pm PT
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Mar 31, 2017 - 11:44pm PT
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 1, 2017 - 05:19pm PT
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Thank you Larry...
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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San Jacinto from Death March Pk, JTree...(It was nippy up there last week!)
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