notes from Change Your Mind Day
H. E. Garchen Rinpoche spoke yesterday at the George Eastman House in Rochester for Change Your Mind Day. A few of bits of notes I took from the lecture:
It's good to laugh because you cannot laugh and have a conceptual thought simultaneously.
Inspect emotion as it arises and it will disappear if meditated upon thoroughly; each time, wisdom increases.
When you destroy one negative emotion in this manner, and realize its emptiness, you realize the emptiness of all negative emotions -- cut one straw and see it is hollow, and you know the rest of the straws are the same.
Think of all sentient beings as your mother.
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stay outta malibu, deadbeat!!
-- dave (June 17, 2003 1:11 AM)
Pardon me, Mr. Schuler, but do you have any information on the artist that made this stained-glass window? I clicked on the Eastman House link, but there was not another picture the same there (at least on the homepage) and I was wondering if you knew who designed/made it. It's just beautiful and reminiscent of the same style by an artist I know who works in Kansas.
-- Kate S. (June 17, 2003 8:05 PM)
Kate: The stained glass has nothing to do with the subject of the blog entry; it was just a picture I happened to take the previous day. The window is actually above the back entrance of my grandfather's house and funeral home. I'll look into it...
-- jeff (June 17, 2003 8:18 PM)
from my mother:
"As to the stained glass window: it has been in the house since it was built by some Reverend in the early 1900's I believe. Some antique dealer thought they were tiffany's and although he climbed up on a ladder to check them out, he couldn't find a signature. Grandma always thought they might be since tiffany had done similar work."
-- jeff (June 19, 2003 9:00 AM)
I didn't know you were in Rochester! We could have met up!
-- jason (June 21, 2003 1:19 PM)
I was only home (in Rochester) for a few short weeks of excitement before buzzing off to camp... Perhaps next time?
( http://blog.meetup.com/ ?)
-- jeff (June 21, 2003 2:55 PM)