tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post1084329028441472292..comments2024-03-24T17:49:05.886-04:00Comments on The Robert Moss BLOG: The Black Chow Named BearMarcia Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04530003059608361331noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-40419745223933677982014-10-12T11:18:29.100-04:002014-10-12T11:18:29.100-04:00"when you decide to study synchronicity, the ..."when you decide to study synchronicity, the world gives you ever more experiences of it" ... my astrologer posed the question "What are you studying now that Saturn heads into Sagitarrius?" <br /><br />My answer: synchronicity! Thank you for the sign.Mokihana Calizarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13186089455585530743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-35440294591090823572014-09-27T00:59:04.620-04:002014-09-27T00:59:04.620-04:00When fools, homes and enlightment are on the agend...When fools, homes and enlightment are on the agenda, there is one great Chinese story from the thirteenth year of the Earth Dragon period about Wu-Ming, a " pickled cucumber Buddha". <br />Nobody knows if he is a complete fool or a great Bodhisattva but when he appears in a monastery, he starts having a miraculous effect on the monks who follow the Buddha path with so much seriousness and harsh discipline that finally rivalry and jealousy permeate and poison all their good intentions.<br />It inevitably ends with Wu-Ming "departure" from the monastery but in the following years he is ocassionaly seen by people as he is trying to find unsuccessfully his way back home to the monastery.<br />The story is rounded out with an encounter of a young monk with Wu-Ming who asks him: "Could you tell me where my home is?". The monk replies: " Is the home you speak to be found in the relative world of time and place, or do you mean the Original Home of all pervading Buddha nature?<br />After considering the question for a while, Wu-Ming grins as only he can and says, "Yes".ninahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07681001278538562028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-17192951753837134852014-09-26T07:29:58.759-04:002014-09-26T07:29:58.759-04:00Love the explanation about bookish spirits under t...Love the explanation about bookish spirits under the Library Angel's suzerainty! The Library Angel or shelf elves were in wonderful form yesterday. I visited a book sale, sponsored by the AAUW, at a Mall and came away with many wonderful finds. There was also an interesting case of 'rhyming'; Prince Harry's "Invictus Games" for wounded warriors have been in the news lately and I walked past a few posters for a masculine scent called "Invictus." Once home, opening one of the books at random, a book of poetry edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, I found the poem "Invictus," by W. E. Henley. Gratitude to the Angel and the elves. Barbara Butler McCoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06250129625281645201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-40727592786591002462014-09-25T18:54:06.594-04:002014-09-25T18:54:06.594-04:00Excellent!Excellent!bookinistahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02776069029397565661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-86279381217478739852014-09-25T18:22:16.719-04:002014-09-25T18:22:16.719-04:00Shelf elves are bookish spirits under the suzerain...Shelf elves are bookish spirits under the suzerainty of the Library Angel. H<br />Common or garden house spirits, even the House Guide, can rarely keep up with them unless they are very well educated. Robert Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09231870716685877709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-33145021939331708952014-09-25T12:35:51.982-04:002014-09-25T12:35:51.982-04:00We used to call it the HG - Household Guide - but ...We used to call it the HG - Household Guide - but "shelf elf" is a good moniker. Once during a particularly debilitating summer, when I couldn't find it in me to accomplish anything, I roused myself (or was roused) from a long drowse, stood up from the sofa, went to the bookshelf, and without thinking in my grogginess grabbed a small old paperback that fell open at William James' talk "On the Energies of Men." I read it in amazement, and then cleaned my entire house right after ...bookinistahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02776069029397565661noreply@blogger.com