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Posted on January 16, 2009 at 11:47am — 2 Comments
RAINBOW CONNECTION
Why are there so many
Songs about rainbows
And what's on the other side
Rainbow's are visions
They're only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
So we've been told and some chose to
Believe it
But I know they're wrong wait and see
Someday we'll find it
The Rainbow Connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me
Who said that every wish
Would be heard and answered
When wished on the morning star
Somebody thought of that
And someone believed it
And look what it's done so far… Continue
Posted on January 15, 2009 at 11:30am —
Our Office Building Christmas Celebration
Free food, free food,
Oh how I love free food!
Down into my belly it goes.
Down into my belly it goes.
I feel so happy and wiggly-jiggly,
eating my free food.
Beef roast slices dripping in fat,
chicken leg cooked to perfection,
green beans with special spices
Oh M… Continue
Posted on December 19, 2008 at 1:30pm — 3 Comments
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It's good to hear from someone so, so, so different than myself. Maybe I can learn a thing or two.
Lost teachings, religions, cultures, treasures...if anyone else has information on Uddiyana please share.
Whereas many a Tibetan text simply locates Uddiyana by saying that it lies to the West of India, Patrul Rinpoche (b. 1808) provides us with more detail when describing the birth place of Garab Dorje not simply as 'Uddiyana' but as being close to Lake Kutra in the region of Dhanakosha; thus indicating present day North-eastern Kashmir (now Pakistan) - a region right in the middle between Chitral, Gilgit and Swat. [The Words of My Perfect Teacher, pages 338-339]
When Giuseppe Tucci strongly proposed the idea (in 1940) that the land known as Uddiyana was finally identified as the Swat valley, he did not know Patrul Rinpoche's text (translated in 1994). Instead, he based himself on two medieval Tibetan travelers who had visited Swat and believed it to be the legendary region that produced such well known adepts as Garab Dorje, Padmasambhava, Luipa and Tilopa - not to mention their mainly female teachers; the women who made this country famous as Paradise of the Dakinis. Tucci had translated these medieval texts and published them as Travels of Tibetan Pilgrims in the Swat Valley - and from then onwards, most authors and translators kept reciting and reprinting the mantra "Uddiyana is Swat" until almost everyone believed it.
Understandably, the majority of scholars (among those interested in Tibetan history and culture) was so excited that Uddiyana had finally been located in space/time (i.e., geography and history), that only a few noticed that the same Giuseppe Tucci - 30 years later - also had to report that ceramics found in the royal tombs of Leh (Ladakh) stand in clear relation with others that were found in Swat [1970, page 244]. Although Tucci does not say so explicitly, this does show us that we're dealing with a cultural realm larger than the small valley along the Swat river alone.
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All the images I post here will be from my Iphone as I walk around the city near my home. The homeless in Chicago are very well dressed and polite. There is so much wealth here, I am saddened we cannot take care of those who are having problems caring for themselves.
I have my favorite street friends. All my change is saved to give to them through the week. I know, I should buy the street folk food or a coupon, but I'm not their Mother and they can make the decision how to spend that money.
Some of the street folk I know so well now. In the summer I will take my morning walk around town and buy two cups of coffee. One for my friend Joe, who is in a wheel chair, having lost the right side of his body to stroke and old age and one for myself. We will sit together and share some words and friendship while sipping our coffee and watching the morning go by. I hope Joe survives this winter. I keep forgetting to take a picture of Joe. When I do I will center on his eyes, they are the kindest, most patient eyes I have seen in a human being. His eyes are surrounded by dark leather brown skin folded in on itself from time and pain. His curly black hair is now peppered with gray, I have no clue how old he is. Maybe I will ask next year if he survives the winter.