Hello,
> Marsha:
> I made a painting of Pheadrus and Chris on the
> motorcycle from the
> photo on Ant's website. There is a part of me that
> wants to send it
> to Ant, but I think I will give it to my grandson.
SA: Your grandson is around you a lot. Your memory
will be fresh on his mind. And how you play with
him... you were at his 'stage' in life, doing
something he very well understands. He'll relate with
you very well. He'll think about you, and if you
decide to give him the painting, much of this can go
either way of course, but he would be more inclined to
wonder about painting, then you, and when he hears
about ZMM, he'll put one and one together and be
amazed. Is your family heritage interesting? Not the
details of your family heritage, but do members of
your family wonder about your family tree? (not the
human family tree for all of the earth, but your
father, mother, grandparents, etc...)
Marsha:
> ZMM was not my first inkling of this understanding.
> I think I was
> born with a kind of unknowing. Reading Krishnamurti
> was the first
> exposure to verbalizing it. But such reading just
> left me free
> floating. ZMM became a beginning structure to
> explore it. It was
> such a relief! It is such a beautiful book.
SA: Star Wars was probably my first wondering of
something more and capable of being experienced
first-hand - you know, the force and such. Also, when
I listened to my father talk up until I was about 19-
20 years old or so, he always seemed to talk in such a
way that was ancient and very worldly. I remember my
brother, sister, and I sitting together at the table
talking with my father and we all said to him, (and we
were probably between 11-15 years old) "Why do we have
to go to school when we can learn from you?" We meant
it. Some days later (he must have been thinking about
it), he said to me we need to go to school to learn
how to read and write to understand if somebody would
happen to come to our house with a piece of paper
wanting us to read it and sign it, and the paper had
to do with the house and property. He said 'things'
in such ways that were simple, but yet lasting, and
deep. The answer wasn't something like well you have
to, or how are you going to get a job. The answer was
very practical and one could see the reasoning was
thoughtful and not full of sh*t.
Marsha:
> I am looking for a source of images of India, both
> modern and ancient, to use in my next painting.
Maybe someday
> a visit. Ma, Ma, Ma, Ma, Ma, Ma, Ma, Ma, Ma...
SA: Maybe try images from the Gupta period of India.
I think I'm going to research this era myself due to
this quote from Campbell:
"Indeed, there was no match for Egyptian art
anywhere in the world
until the Classic period of Greece; and after that the
Gupta period of India, c. 400 A.D., whence the magic
passed with Mahayana Buddhism to China and Japan."
SA continues: You know, after putting this quote here
I notice, see the Mahayana Buddhism, it comes up
again. Also, Pirsig may have talked about Greece and
the rise of a certain intellect, but it would seem
this Greek intellect also corresponds with art -
creativity, this is significant.
Also, I was thinking quite a bit today about your
comment on experience and how one experiencing an
experience can become very deep and desirable. This
comment by you was triggered while I was at work and
an employee said the following (note: the retail store
I work at uses red as it's color): "I love this
place, I'm so into this place. I love it so much I
bleed red." I do work at a very catchie, in-tune type
of retail store, for retail stores that is. I'm not
going to say the name of the store, don't need to
advertise for it. Yet, when this employee said this,
to her boss, very seriously, and yelling it while she
was walking away, something clicked in me. If we can
involve ourselves in a certain experience, and get
through any hitches, traps, and stuckness', then no
holds bar we will become what we desire. As much as
we may try not to become hitched and tied to a post of
a certain experience, something static does latch. We
put our lives into something and out comes our lives.
Marsha:
> I wish he and the Tibetans the very best.
SA: I wish them the best, too. Notice how Buddhism
is taking its' hits in that region. In Afghanistan by
the Taliban (the cliff Buddhas blown up by them,
etc...), I wonder if any Buddhist monks are in
Afghanistan now. And Pakistan? India is still a safe
haven. Myanmar buddhists are under fire. Tibetan
buddhists. Chinese buddhists. Thailand Buddhists see
something on the horizon of their experience and it
looks dangerous due to the impact of the Myanmar
dictator rumblings into the surrounding countries.
China and India haven't had strong relations for some
time, and with the rumors of Buddhists and others
planning a march from India to Tibet the Chinese have
amassed more soldiers on the India border.
greetings,
SA
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