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Dear Friends
My name is Rev.Yao Feng Shakya also known as the"sadmonk".
I am an ordained Zen Buddhist Priest in the Zen Buddhist order of Hsu Yun.
If you would like to contact me, please feel free. "If not for your friendship, love and light. I would not be alive. I am only alive through others love and light." metta
Rev.Yao Feng Shakya



I named myself the sadmonk because I feel everyone's pain and suffering. Until there is no more suffering and sadness then I will always be the sadmonk. I am sad for others, not for self. Self does not exist seperately from others. We are all one. -Rev.Yao

My Interests



IN THE WIND

Practice 10,000 times, then do it again:)

Buddha

Om Mani Padme Hum

"Children teaching me how to paint zen":)

I'd like to meet:

"EVERYONE"

All of these paintings are for sale. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or anything.

"Northern Lights"

"Perfect Enlightenment"

"Pureland"
"Cascades"
"It's a monks life""

"Awake"

"Reflection"
"Bag of Love"

"Love is Everything"
"The jewel within"

"Chicks"
"Circle of love"

"Quackers for You"

"Life is Ducky"
"The Transmission""Buddha Mind-Sits"
~Buddha's talk on Good Will~

By the power and the truth of this practice,
may all beings have happiness, and the causes of happiness.
May all be free from sorrow, and the causes of sorrow.
May all never be separated from the sacred happiness
which is sorrowless.
And may all live in equanimity,
without too much attachment and too much aversion,
And live believing in the equality of all that lives.
May all beings be filled with joy and peace.
May all beings everywhere,
The strong and the weak,
The great and the small,
The mean and the powerful,
The short and the long,
May all beings everywhere,
Seen and unseen,
Dwelling far off or nearby,
May all be filled with lasting joy.
Let no one deceive another,
Let no one anywhere despise another,
Let no one out of anger or resentment
Wish suffering on anyone at all.
Just as a mother with her own life
Protects her child, her only child, from harm,
So within yourself let grow
A boundless love for all creatures.
Let your love flow outward through the universe,
To its height, its depth, its broad extent,
A limitless love, without hatred or enmity.
Then as you stand or walk,
Sit or lie down,
As long as you are awake,
Strive for this with a one-pointed mind.
Your life will bring heaven to earth.

-Sutta Nipata

"Shining One"Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Samma Sambuddhasa.

Music:


"Jimi Hendrix"

"Let Love Rule" Lenny Kravitz"

"The Cure"

H.I.M.

Stone Sour
-Chinese Zen Master Han Shan. "cold mountain"

Movies:



Books:

This is our true nature.

To love and be love.

There is no greater calling in life then to love all that exists in this beautiful world.

namaste
rev.

yao

Heroes:


Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva while practicing deep Prajna ParamitaPerceived all five skandhas were empty and was saved from suffering and distress
Shariputra, form is no different from emptiness
Emptiness is no different from form
That which is form is emptiness
That which is emptiness is form
Feelings, perceptions, impulses, consciousness, the same is true of these
Shariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness
They do not appear or disappear
are not tainted or pure
do not increase or decrease
Therefore in emptiness no form,
no feelings, perceptions, impulses, consciousness
no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, mind
no color, sound, smell, taste, touch, object of mind
no realm of eyes and so forth until no realm of mind consciousness
no ignorance and also no extinction of ignorance
and so forth until no old age and death and no extinction of old age and death
no suffering, origination, stopping, path
no cognition also no attainment
with nothing to attain
the Bodhisattva depends upon Prajna Paramita
and mind is no hindrance
without any hindrance no fear exists
far apart from every inverted view
dwells in Nirvana
All Buddhas in the Three Worlds
depend on Prajna Paramita
and attain complete unsurpassed enlightenment
Therefore know the Prajna Paramita
is the great transcendent mantra
is the great bright mantra
is the utmost mantra
is the supreme mantra
which is able to relieve all suffering and is true, not false
so proclaim the Prajna Paramita mantra
proclaim the mantra that says
gone,gone, gone beyond
gone all the way beyond, Bodhi Svaha!
heart sutra
Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha.

My Blog

Diversity is our Unity.

It is in our differences that we come to realize our sameness. We are all one and the same even though we are many, different and unique. It is in our sameness that we come to love all of our brothers...
Posted by Zen Paintings on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:15:00 PST

I Wish. . .

That we can all just hold hands and love one another and get along with all beings in this world. Not causing harm to anyone. No matter how small or large, abled or disabled, young or old, male or fem...
Posted by Zen Paintings on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:29:00 PST

Hearts as one.

Coming up through the concrete Little friends with wings beat Where did they go I can't see them anymore Going somewhere, nowhere. Leaving there hearts in the cracks of my foundation. I say a prayer f...
Posted by Zen Paintings on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:53:00 PST

My heart is with Myanmar.

We all have the right to speak out and stand against injustice. My heart and being is with all the people of  Burma (Myanmar). In spirit I am walking with you and speaking out against injustice a...
Posted by Zen Paintings on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:45:00 PST

Love and Light.

I have loved you and known you all your life. You remember me don't you? if not let me remind you. I am you, you are me. We have been together throughout eternity. We have lived and died everywhere, b...
Posted by Zen Paintings on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:55:00 PST

Do I paint paintings?

I do not paint paintings. I paint pieces of me & you. That to me is a painting. Rev.Yao "Heavens Bridge"...
Posted by Zen Paintings on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:10:00 PST