Merle,
Will you let us know what you get into after being in touch with Subhana? She
may have some suggestions about Zen practice, or some observations about art
and zen which would interest people, here.
She's in the line that various teachers here are in, including our late Pat
Hawk Roshi, and she has often been to Tucson. Most recently there was a
meeting of all the Diamond Sangha Teachers Circle here, while our teacher Pat
was still living, and he hosted the 25 or so of them at his retreat just north
of town, bordering the Saguaro National Monument West, at Picture Rocks.
Beautiful petroglyphs there -- not by painting, as in Australia, but by
pounding, using a rock tool to abrade the mountain by pummeling. The Hohokam
tribe, about 800 years ago.
I have no special affinity for psychiatrists, but her profession closely
exercises her concern for people thereby, and there-through, as does her zen
teaching and her artwork. And, she expresses herself well in words, and art.
I have always had respect for people in the helping-professions, maybe because
mine is far from that. Unless you call keeping the planet safe from the
largest catastrophic ecological disaster -- impact of a large asteroid or comet
-- "helping". But the Yoga teaching and introductory meditation instruction
and dharma teaching is more along the lines of immediate helping, nowadays, for
me, although I do not practice medicine or social work.
Again, I think Kandinsky's art is great. No need to recommend other painters
I'm already very well familiar with, and I am not dissatisfied in any way by
Mr. K.
I think you might love Subhana because she is from your hemisphere, and
country, teaches Zen, and she paints. And, any other reason you may find. ;-)
She is a very close associate of two teachers I've practiced with in Arizona,
the late Pat Hawk Roshi, and John Tarrant Roshi, and those two teachers often
told glowing stories about her. I don't mind at all if you mention this to
her, although I don't see why to do so, unless just to tell her that it was
from a zen astronomer in Tucson from whom you received word that there's a
Zen-teacher Painter in Sydney (and Melbourne).
Thanks for your trust!,
--Joe
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> joe..you seem to be enthralled with her...yet you have never met her...
>
> easy to write and tell to all how beautiful we are how righteous, how
> learned,..blah blah...face to face tells another story...
> ok i'll send her an email... we will see...
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