Guest guest Posted October 3, 2000 Report Share Posted October 3, 2000 On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 19:29:24 Gloria Lee wrote: >The art >of creating and seeing beauty within this present momentariness and letting it >all go, nonattachment. Few of us may learn the art of creating intricate >mandalas, but there is another wonderful way to practice art and meditation with >sand. A Zen sandbox can be a way to play with purposeful purposelessness, or >design a miniature landscape... it is whatever you do with it, now this, then >that. Clearly, this is optional, but people might like it, no Buddhism required. Zen sand gardens are something of the most beautiful I can imagine. They are just so... so.... there. Meditative. >Jerry, did you ever see David Letterman's "brush with greatness" where people in >the audience would tell about some encounter with a celebrity? In a kind of >brush with a brush way, this monk's still very young sister used to work in the >Dalai Lama's office back in India, so I asked her to tell me something more >about him. It seems she had just returned from a year in Japan where she had >been offered some free training in fashion design, but it had felt to her more >like she was being used for free labor. The Dalai Lama was listening very >carefully to her story and kept nodding his head very sympathetically, so she >went on and on about how awful and disappointing this had been for her and how >hard it was to learn to speak the language. When she finally stopped, he nodded >even more vigorously and said, "Excellent, very good experience, very good." >Then she caught this twinkle in his eye and they both burst out laughing. LOL ! Well told, Gloria, this was almost like hearing His Holiness at his most humorous. When he was visiting Denmark, he had a morning meeting with the press. He smiled and asked the journalists if they were sleepy. When passing one bearded journalist, he tugged at the beard and asked if it was real. Thank you, Jerry, for posting this very good-looking and well organized information. Love, Amanda. Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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