Oh, you gotta just love this one. Dig the copy:
This is a warm lingering fragrance that conveys a mysterious, unique quality that is not unlike the Oriental philosophy that inspired it. It is quiet, yet sensual, exotic and modern, tempting and sexy yet innocent. It is a blend of jasmine, rose, burnished woods and soft [...]
Thanks to Horse-friend and Dharma-brother Josh Bartok, who just sent this:
A fascinating new graticon [kind of like an emoticon, expressing gratitude in a Buddhist sort of way]:
m(_ _)m
it’s described on urbandictionary.com thusly:
“Basically, it’s a person bowing! The two M’s are the hands of the person, the _’s are the person’s eyes, [...]
Just watched it.
A real mixed bag. All in all, pretty OK, but they played fast and loose with some facts about Buddhism and the re-creations were sometimes just flat-out embarrassing to watch.
The “60’s” footage that accompanied the part about Timothy Leary’s translation of the Book of the Dead, “The Psychedelic Experience” — one of [...]
In this video (which made CNN.com’s front page today):
“Jim Carrey calls for people to support the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi. He also decries Burma’s military regime for recruiting more child soldiers than any other country in the world, destroying 3,000 villages in eastern Burma, and forcing 1.5 million [...]
This just in from reader Dan:
Hey there,
Just got turned on to you guys by my girlfriend Arielle. We love you guys! Feels good to know I’m not the only crazy-ass death metal Buddhist out there.
So, Ari and I were at the bar (Sully’s in Hartford, CT) the other night — I’m a rock critic — [...]
Reader Jaime McLeod sends this:
In the same spirit as the Buddha mousepad and rug submitted recently, here is a Buddha coaster, made by Thirstystone Inc., a Texas-based company that produces high-end (read: expensive) sandstone coasters decorated with team logos, nature pictures, and just about any other imaginable design motif.
I found these in a cheesy “spiritual” [...]
They used to say that if you were parodied in Mad magazine, you’d made it. These days, not so much.
But if someone gets a tattoo of you (or your work), then maybe so.
So the Horse was rather pleased to see this photo of a tattoo of a piece by Dolla — one of his “Dolla [...]
Greetings from Ireland to all of friends of the Horse.
I’m currently in Ireland on holiday. I wish I could regale you with fascinating tales of uncovered Dharma treasures here on the Emerald Isle, but, they are in fact very few and far between.
There’s been a little, but not much to tell you about right now. [...]
Thanks to our friend Amy who handed this pre-printed, Post-It-style note to us with a sly smile.
It reads:
I meditate. I burn candles. I drink green tea. [...] and still I want to smack someone.
Sadly, how many of us can’t relate at all to this one?
Well, at least we can keep tryin’.
From Slate.
Baseball fans: check out this Dharma-inspired “11-page training and procedures manual”…
It’s SO worth it.
