joe...yes joe i will send you the email before i forward it to her..okay..you are kind indeed to point me to this direction... with christmas coming...time is tight..spent 2 hours weeding in garden...my zen activity..in motion meditation..love weeding began it as a child... and so good for you...what have i done today of worth..rang a friend who is struggling to come to terms with his health...they cannot pin point what is wrong..though blood tests reveal something is a miss...he let himself go to seed..retired at 40 from social worker...to sit and eat..and thinking he had only a mind forgot his body..the temple..and thus grew into a fat lard lump..then had a heart attack..now he cares for body in mid 60;s..too late maybe... we will see..take it easy joe...i was a helper..i was an art teacher..my aim was to bring out what was already there..to encourage the soul to fly freely... merle
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...
