It's been a very long time!

The new logo I designed and then Rinpoche commissioned someone to do the finished artwork. The logo for the FPMT Center, Land of Compassion and Widsom. May it flourish in the years to come, grow and grow.

Brugmansia collection

Furniture and Mikalou

Spring 2009

Greenhouse with only the Brugmansia and roses left inside.

Another view of greenhouse.

Another

Flats of seedlings grown in greenhouse


There is so much stuff to be planted. Now I need energy, weather which isn't 30mph winds, and some dry days with high pressure to work on planting it all.

Chulo is the best Budgie I've seen!

This little guy is an amazing talker...have fun watching and search for him on YouTube.


This is Wee Woo and amazing talking common starling.

Peace,
Victoria

Prajna Paramita The Heart Sutra in Sanskrit

Learn to recite the Heart Sutra
in Sanskrit.
The video is really audio with a photo of His Holiness.
I hope to one day recite this without reading it.

See the words below the video link.

Prajna Paramita Hrdaya Sutram

Aryalokiteshvara Bodhisattva gambhiram Prajna Paramita caryam caramano,
vyavalokiti sma panca-skanda asatta sca svabhava sunyam pasyati sma.
Iha Sariputra, rupam sunyam, sunyata lva rupam,
rupa na vrtta sunyata. Sunyataya na vrtta sa-rupam,
yad rupam sa-sunyata, yad sunyata sa-rupam.
Evam eva vedana, samjna, sam-skara vijnanam.
Iha sariputra, sarva dharma sunyata laksana.
Anutpanna, aniruddha, amala, a-vimala, anuna a-paripurna.
Tasmat Sariputra, sunyatayam na rupam.
na vedana, na samjna, na sam-skara, na vijnanam.
na caksu, srotra, ghrana, jihva kaya ,manasa.
na rupam, sabda, ghandha, rasa, sparstavya, dharma.
Na caksur-dhatu, yavat na manovijnanam-dhatu
Na avidya, na avidya ksayo,
yavat na jara-maranam, na jara-marana ksayo.
Na dukha, samudaya, nirodha, marga.
na jnana, na prapti, na abhi-samaya.
Tasmat na prapti tva Bodhisattvanam,
prajna-paramitam a-sritya vi-haratya citta avarana,
citta avarana na sthitva, na trasto.
vi-paryasa ati-kranta nistha nirvanam.
Try-adhva vyavasthita sarva Buddha Prajna-Paramitam
A-sritya Annutara-Samyak-Sambodhim, Abhi-sambuddha.
Tasmat, jnatavyam Prajna-paramita Maha-Mantra,
Maha-vidya Mantra, Anuttara Mantra, asama-samati Mantra.
sarva duhkha pra-samana satyam amithyatva.
Prajna Paramita mukha Mantra
Tadyatha, Gate Gate Para-gate Para-samgate Bodhi Svaha

This fence lizard made it up to the prayer flags

in the garden. Lucky critter!

Have a Heart: Don't Kill Wildlife

Our garden is protected by the two certifications we
achieved through the Texas Dept. of Parks and
Wildlife and the National Wildlife Federation.

These are our certificates last name omitted:




This is a baby fence lizard. We have many thousands
of these lizards all over the property.



Here it is full grown, disguised by the Mesquite bark.



Rufous hummingbird at our kitchen window feeder.



Rufous at a Dulichos lablab aka hyacinth bean vine.