Books are spiral bound, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, printed on pale gold-colored card stock. $15.00 plus $3.50 shipping.
The linoleum block prints (linocuts) are printed by hand on unbleached mulberry paper and matted using conservation quality materials. Each matted print is 11 x 14 inches and ready to frame. $40.00 each plus $5.00 shipping.
Un-matted prints are $25.00 each, including shipping. They are 9 x 12 inches in size.
A Collection of Sixteen Prayers from Various Spiritual Traditions With Fourteen Illustrations by Mary Ray Cate. A line from the prayer it illustrates is given after the title of the print.
What is prayer? How can it help us on our journey? Prayer is a way to express our intentions, our aspirations and hopes, our gratitude for all the good in the world and all the gifts we have received. Through prayer we can tune into our higher selves, our Inner Light, our Buddha nature, and touch the peace that is there. [from the Introduction]
May life surprise you
every day with its new dawn
where hope remains present…
Your love is round about me…
Waking up this morning I smile…
May we with the blessing of this food join our hearts to the one heart of the world…
Come Lord and cover us with the night…
The Story of a Spiritual Journey in Prints and Poetry
First painted in China, the Ten Ox Herding Pictures are the story of a spiritual journey.
All ten prints shown below with poetry by Mark Gelula, Brendan Becker, and Mary Ray Cate. Spiral bound, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Japanese language version, printed on lightweight
light-green paper, available for same price. Just send an email with your order.
Help! Lost! Something has to change!
I vow to search until I find a better way.
Realizing I have lost touch with my true self,
I commit to following a spiritual path.
The search is long and hard.
It takes work and determination.
But there are tracks to follow – teachings to study
And a community of fellow seekers, past and present.
Having dropped preconceptions,
I see into my basic nature for the first time.
Awakening, I step into the experience of emptiness,
The potential for interbeing with all that is.
Having glimpsed my true self, I struggle to harness my unruly mind,
To move beyond delusions, attachments, and discriminatory thinking.
I must find a balance between concentrated effort
and relaxed openness to unexpected beauty.
To tame the mind is to empty the mind,
letting go of thoughts and opinions one after another.
Each moment is precious. Not to be present and aware is to waste my one and only life.
My new routine: I wake up to each moment and observe.
Humility, courage, and commitment have paid off.
Released from my conditioning,I see the whole picture as if from above.
Through mindfulness I have gained self-understanding
and can now relax and spend time integrating what I have learned.
Now inherent wisdom emerges.
Nothing is strange or unusual.
Absolute and relative, negation and affirmation, are in balance.
My heart is free and light.
Emptiness: no aspirations, no preconceptions, no desires or aversions,
no distinctions, no opinions or preferences.
Nothing between me and what is.
Without the interference of suffering, whatever I encounter I see as it is.
Wild, mysterious, ever-changing nature in gardens, woods, or cracks in the sidewalk,
brings us back to our one true home, the source of light, life, and creativity.
The fundamental nature of the world is not changed by human desires, projections, judgments, or needs. The beauty of the world touches us, and we see with new eyes.
We enter the marketplace, unchanged on the outside, but softer
inside, with peace and joy to share.
The path of contemplation leads to compassionate action.
Yet we never finish the journey.
We give away what we have received and go back to the beginning to
follow the path in an upward spiral.