 snow snow snow - my meditation continues   |
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. . . Read my SNOW Haiku 2008
With the Weather Forecast for the next 7 days ...
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Let it snow !
Just when my snow-phobia was getting the better of me, I found this lovely
© Let it snow !
Exhibition at Kaikodo
Check it out!
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Since some of you asked ...
TIBET : Thumo reskiang:
lamaic art of self-heating
David-Neel studied this art. She saw hermits who sat meditating outside, naked upon snowbanks night after night, with blizzards whirling around them; she saw students of the discipline pass tests by drying on their bodies icy sheets fresh-dipped from Himalayan lakes in midwinter. P. 133, she meditates in the thumo rite, not only to warm herself but to dry flint and tinder so she can light a fire.
Putting them under her dress, she sits and envisions flames rising, crackling around her, until it seems she can see them and she felt deliciously warm. When something made her start awake, she seemed to see the flames die down as if entering the ground, and opening her eyes she found her body burning, her face cherry red and her eyes bright, and the tinder and flint were dry and hot.
http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Tib.htm
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