The doodles deserve to delight more people, and putting each with its relevant sutta is a lovely idea.
& welcome to the forum. 
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What a lovely idea.
Could this also perhaps be available in virtual form for many? I would love to see it, and give it away too⌠and your generous intention might benefit very many indeed⌠
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Iâll let you know when I have files for distribution. Iâm working on them now.
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Drowning in tears
SN 15.3
The stream of tears that you have shed as you roamed and wandered through this long course, weeping and wailing because of being united with the disagreeable and separated from the agreeableâthis alone is more than the water in the four great oceans.
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I remember being profoundly struck when I first read that one, âyeah, sounds about right.â
Still, in effort to take the edge off a little, this morning I discovered it is possible to cry from happiness, so perhaps theyâre not aaaaall tears of misery.
As ever, much thanks Ven. Yodha.
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Itâs so true, itâs so true⌠itâs actually quite silly to expect anything else from this Samsara! Why should of all things just my situation right now turn exactly the way Iâm wishing⌠???
So be happy with what I have, and do my thing as best I canâthatâs what I can do!
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lol why does the bird have a santa hat? And is it Mara?
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I think I may have been inspired to draw that hat when someone (jokingly) offered to buy a santa hat for our Buddha statue the other day. Itâs getting quite cold over hereâŚ
And it seemed like the picture was missing some color.
The bird could be Mara, or just a fellow being going about its business and inadvertently causing problems for you, because its actions have consequences that affect youâŚ
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It strikes me that there are 4 forms of water in this pic⌠> a world/water in continual transformation⌠while we try to find our way on the perpetually transitional âthin iceâ 
Thank you 
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Only showing the way
This doodle is inspired by a simile from Zen Buddhism
The finger pointing to the moon
The Buddha told Ananda, âYou still listen to the Dharma with the conditioned mind, and so the Dharma becomes conditioned as well, and you do not obtain the Dharma-nature. It is like when someone points his finger at the moon to show it to someone else. Guided by the finger, that person should see the moon. If he looks at the finger instead and mistakes it for the moon, he loses not only the moon but the finger also. Why? It is because he mistakes the pointing finger for the bright moon.â
From the Shurangama (not an EBT, quoted from fakebuddhaquotes.com)
and a simile from MN 107 (The road to Rajagaha)
MN 107
When he had spoken, MoggallÄna the Accountant said to the Buddha: âWhen his disciples are instructed and advised like this by Master Gotama, do all of them achieve the ultimate goal, extinguishment, or do some of them fail?â âSome succeed, while others fail.â
âWhat is the cause, Master Gotama, what is the reason why, though extinguishment is present, the path leading to extinguishment is present, and Master Gotama is present to encourage them, still some succeed while others fail?â
âWell then, brahmin, Iâll ask you about this in return, and you can answer as you like. What do you think, brahmin? Are you skilled in the road to RÄjagaha?â âYes, I am.â âWhat do you think, brahmin? Suppose a person was to come along who wanted to go to RÄjagaha. Heâd approach you and say: âSir, I wish to go to RÄjagaha. Please point out the road to RÄjagaha.â Then youâd say to them: âHere, mister, this road goes to RÄjagaha. Go along it for a while, and youâll see a certain village. Go along a while further, and youâll see a certain town. Go along a while further and youâll see RÄjagaha with its delightful parks, woods, meadows, and lotus ponds.â Instructed like this by you, they might still take the wrong road, heading west. But a second person might come with the same question and receive the same instructions. Instructed by you, they might safely arrive at RÄjagaha. What is the cause, brahmin, what is the reason why, though RÄjagaha is present, the path leading to RÄjagaha is present, and you are there to encourage them, one person takes the wrong path and heads west, while another arrives safely at RÄjagaha?â âWhat can I do about that, Master Gotama? I am the one who shows the way.â
âIn the same way, though extinguishment is present, the path leading to extinguishment is present, and I am present to encourage them, still some of my disciples, instructed and advised like this, achieve the ultimate goal, extinguishment, while some of them fail. What can I do about that, brahmin? The Realized One is the one who shows the way.â
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Love this and its inspiration.
Better to turn back and start again then continue on to a wrong destination!
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This doodle is about not accepting oneâs limits and pushing oneself too hard⌠
Overwhelmed â Everything is just too much
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Are those toilet plungers? I have experienced that feeling of being overwhelmed by all the **** going on in the world.
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Wide open are the doors to the deathless!
SN 6.1
Flung open are the doors to the deathless!
Let those with ears to hear decide their faith.
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Thank you, this was exactly what I needed right now! 
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With little dust in their eyes
SN 6.1
Let the Blessed One teach the Dhamma!
Let the Holy One teach the Dhamma!
There are beings with little dust in their eyes.
Theyâre in decline because they havenât heard the teaching.
There will be those who understand the teaching!
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Knowing and seeing and hearing thisâŚ
Life in any world is unstable, it is swept away.
Life in any world has no shelter and no protector.
Life in any world has nothing of its own; one has to leave all and pass on.
Life in any world is incomplete, insatiate, the slave of craving.Knowing and seeing and hearing this, I went forth from the home life into homelessness.
MN 82
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All paths
AN 10.22
I am able to teach the Dhamma in appropriate ways to different people. ⌠And they will know or see or realize it in whatever way it should be known or seen or realized. âŚThe Realized One truly understands where all paths of practice lead.
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