In functioning Buddhist shrines, practitioners engage all of
their senses...
They make offerings, count prayer beads, light incense,
imbibe blessed liquids, play ritual music, pray….
Saw the reliquary “when all the roads are one” by Ghiora
Aharoni, an artist who put videos of pilgrimages inside refigured taxi meters,
movies that never showed the final destination, only the journey, called the
Road to Sanchi, the sites are never seen only the journey…the journeys become
vehicles for examining time,
Then saw an interesting show about the 2nd Buddha
Padmasambharas, whose was like a prophet, whose hidden teachings were projected
into the future, in times of trouble, he hid his teachings to be discovered
when needed, planting the seeds for many possible futures. His hidden teachings are known as terma or
treasure teachings…they can be objects, visions, revelatory experiences…
So we flew to Iceland
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