--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No, NOT the people who hang out on FFL, although > some of us are. :-) > > What I had in mind are "objects of power" -- things > in your house that you might have picked up along the > Way and that hold some spiritual significance for you.
Oh, the picture i have of John Hagelin on my alter. Along with Ammachi, Karunamayi, Mother Meera, Yogananda, Guru Dev and other saints. Along with my meditation and spiritual practices i also pray, that John Hagelin could pull it off. I keep a cool hammering rock that was left on my property. It flipped up to the surface about 25 years ago while i was disking and harrowing one spring. A hand made rock tool from a kind of rock that is not from around here which some native American left behind. A lot of people have lived here for a long time, is sort of humbling. I also got some glacial eratics that show the movements of past glaciers over here. Age old. > So, does anyone have any cool old relics they'd love to > rap about? Things that uplift and inspire you consistently, > and are thus of value to you on your spiritual path? > > > Whatever they are -- statues or paintings of teachers > or saints or gods and goddesses you revere, thangkas > of Tibetan saints, photos of places of power or actual > objects you collected in those places -- if you're like > me you fell in love with these objects when you first > saw them, and just had to take them home with you and > put them in a place of honor in your house. > > So, just out of curiosity, what cool spiritual objects > have the folks here at Fairfield Life collected in their > travels? > > I'm thinking about this because I saw a show of holy > relics in Barcelona yesterday, and then came home, > looked around, and realized that I had my share of them, > too. Most would qualify as art -- Tibetan tsaklis, a > drum from a Zen temple in Kyoto, etc. -- some are just > rocks or shards of pottery I picked up while visiting > a place of power. > > My favorite, just to show that I really am curious > and that I collect such things myself, is a garment that > hangs on the wall above my bed. It's a Tibetan high lama's > robe, 17th century, from the Drepung monastery. The head > lama of the monastery would have worn it on ceremonial > occasions, during which he would have danced for his > students, simultaneously transmitting an empowerment. > > For me it just rocks. I get high just looking at it, and > imagining the culture cool enough to invent something like > teaching your students via telepathy while dancing for > them. But to other people, it's just a faded brown robe > embroidered with dragons. For them it would have no more > ability to uplift and inspire than a dishrag. > > For you the relic might be a book signed by one of your > spiritual teachers, or a photo taken of you standing with > them, or a statuette of Lakshmi you bought in India in a > place that really uplifted and inspired you. It could be > a musical instrument played by someone cool, or by your- > self in some way cool place. If you've hung onto the > object for years, and it still serves to uplift and > inspire you, that's the kind of thing I'm talking > about -- whatever it might be. > > So, does anyone have any cool old relics they'd love to > rap about? Things that uplift and inspire you consistently, > and are thus of value to you on your spiritual path? >
