good advice
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| rereading Pirsig (third time) thanks to a conversation I had at the office christmas dinner during which a colleague asked me whether I had fully understood this book - we were talking about his motorcycle whereupon I asked him if he had per chance read Zen & the art of... yes he had, admitting he had found it pretty tough going at times - my initial reaction to his question was 'yes' quickly followed by a 'I have forgotten quite a lot, though' and so I began again; it is full of wise mind boggling, soul searching Chautauquas, so I probably have understood far less than I thought! having started reading 4 weeks ago I have encountered three other men (including my husband) who have also read the book, so quite a few conversations have revolved around 'classical versus romantic thinking' et cetera. Whilst discussing Zen &... the Tibetan book of the Dead was also mentioned and serendipitously there was a positive review on the telly (did not see that myself)so lo and behold it is all of a sudden a minor hype in book land, the latter that is. I seemed to recall owning the Tibetan book myself, although I had been unable to locate it for time now. I have been reorganising books amongst other things and had not come across it so far. Today however it took just one look at the exact shelf it was sat on: yep there it was. See I wasn't going crazy, I do own this book.....and then whilst making the two collages below, a line of wisdom in a magazine, to which I would like to add: READ * SMILE SEW*COOK*WRITE*DRAW*MAKE*GROW*READ*SMILE |
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| 'there's a black dog in the living room, his paws are very muddy, do we let him stay or not?' off to friend R. in the UK who loves dogs |
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| fallen angel, have not yet made up my mind where she's heading |
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love your collages.
These are exquisite and funny that Dee writes that its funny that you just wrote this because I too have been thinking about rereading Zen. I read so much that I probably never really understood because I was so young.
2. Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Allen Watts were my readings in en back around the same time. I have since liked Suzuki Roshi, especially "Zen Mind, Beginner Mind" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Mind,_Beginner%27s_Mind).
Many teachers and many paths, one essential message at the heart of all of them. A bit like your art--
I LOVE your collages...both of them!
Very true Deanna.
the KLM ad is excellent, it has come my way several times now on Facebook
I must explain that the dog collage was made with a very funny sofa ad to which I have only added the black dog in the foreground, the dalmation top right, a window and lampshade on the left plus something in right foreground corner to hide the text, so the credits for the original setting go to the photographer and his/her team in getting all of these dogs to sit patiently for the photograph
thanks Michelle for your info on Buddhist scholars, I have to admit to knowing very little about (Buddhist) scholars and have not deliberately chose this version, it was most likely the only one available in the shop when I bought it back in the nineties (or maybe I wasn't looking hard enough)
I haven't even managed to finish reading it, but then it isn't a book you have to read all in one go, like a novel.....
I have 'discovered' Pema Chodron, not long ago in fact, I bought 'start where you are' liking the title and that's just about as far as I got, being distracted by where I am in life (= Very Busy) and Pirsig's Motorcycle saga; I will post about Pema in the future I'm sure, as I have watched several of her you-tube talks and am mightily impressed by her insightful and straightforward teachings
I forget a lot of what I say, so if you do keep coming back please forgive me my repetitions, I have but a few themes
wow Mo, I had not heard of him (if I have I've forgotten) and have just googled him, not only is Frederick Franck Dutch he was born in the same town I was! yet another book and person to discover (see Ellen Meloy over at Grace's)