Friday, March 28, 2008

How Long Does It Take To Get Utahs Ccw

Greco-Buddhist Art (Art of Gandhara)

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In primitive Buddhism, representing the figure of Buddha was a taboo, so in the paintings and reliefs where it must appear His figure was replaced by symbols such as footprints, an umbrella, etc. The first Buddha statues were made by East, but by Greek artists' studios have migrated to land in Pakistan and Afghanistan following the conquests carried out by Alexander the Great. This artistic style that develops between the ages IV and V BC AD, lays the groundwork for what will be the Buddhist sculpture to be held from Afghanistan to Japan. It is possible that those who see the Eastern traditions and Buddhism as something new, outside the West, they can be surprisingly two thousand years ago the Olympian Gods and the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from the East were represented in same artistic style of European origin: the Hellenistic. Art Greco-Buddhist Art of Gandhara and flourished for many centuries along the Silk Road. Even today, after so long, we still surprising sweetness and peace that emanate from these statues.








Thursday, February 7, 2008

Pattycakes Masterbation

Pure Land

Here is the
Pure Land Pure Land is here,
full smile
care and live in the present moment.
The Buddha is seen in an autumn leaf,
Dharma is a cloud floating
the body of the Sangha is everywhere,
my true home is here.

Inspiring,
the flowers open;
exhaling, I am aware

swaying bamboo.
My mind is free
and joy of each moment.


Poem of the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh


Thich Nhat Hanh explains in this poem and beyond our desires and our fears, to live with full attention the moment this is the path through which we connect with our inner peace. So to a simple Zen monk, the world becomes a paradise (the Pure Land of Sukhavati).
is the same lesson that Westerners find in works like "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho, where the protagonist, after traveling the world looking for a treasure , just being in the where he always lived, or even in the philosophy of the Kabbalists: "Men think that paradise is in heaven, but the angels know that paradise on earth."
I recommend a book: Our true home. The path to the Pure Land written by Thich Nhat Hanh, published by Editions Oniro Castilian, http://www.edicionesoniro.com/

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

My Dog Is Having Strokes



The other day I saw

a rich standing in front of the temple.
tended his hands full of stones

all passersby, saying: "Have compassion
,
take of me these gems.
I have
sick soul and heart have hardened me:
mercy, have mercy,
take it, cause that
cure me.
But nobody paid attention.

poem entitled Misery, written by Lebanese artist and poet Khalil Yibran Yibran



There is no doubt that a truly wise man is a happy man. The true happiness, lasting, is not in having great possessions or do great things. It is here and now, in the present moment and we must not act in a special way to find it, just knowing it's there, always waiting in our hearts. Find it within ourselves continuously balance the relationship with our environment and teach us to marvel at the miracle that hold the small things in life.

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Robert Becker Crossword Puzzles

Happiness Wisdom Mind


Forget what I remember the creator created
Care
and stay inside as loving the beloved



San Juan de la Cruz, sixteenth century English mystic



Tibetans say the heart when they speak of the mind. (In the West, most would point out the head). The development of the mind is only possible if we look inside ourselves. And what we discover it? Then again ask the Tibetans, who give us a shot of self-define as something large, clean, clear and bright. We are not referring to the mind of the saints, but to all of us, the people's "normal."

The mind is indestructible. In Tibet, his name is Dory, which means indestructible diamond. No matter how evil or we are so sleepy that it is our consciousness, is always there, dormant, waiting for their chance to wake up. In the East is famous Angulimala history, the fierce bandit who eventually became a pious monk.

The mind is the wonder * that we all keep within ourselves. Some call it inner child, inner teacher, God, essence, soul, inner Buddha ... all these expressions are used to define the possible development of our capacity to love unconditionally ... San Juan de la Cruz says in one of the verses of the Spiritual Canticle ... "My soul has been used / and all my possessions in their service / no longer keep livestock / or because I have another job / that and only love is my exercise. "

* If you can read the book Wonder Enrique Barrios