a ghost pumpkin with wax dribble -- Daruma wobbles Ghost pumpkins are very popular this year as the choice pumpkin to carve for Halloween. The day after...
QUOTE The Art of Creating Sumi-e Sit. Meditate. Paint. That's the philosophy behind the Japanese art of Sumi-e, or black ink painting. You can apply these...
WA for "harmony" KEI for "respect" SEI is "purity" JAKU is "quietude, stillness" They comprize the essence of the way of tea as taught by Sen no Rikkyuu. Now...
... Rikkyuu. ... from Zen ... which is ... that leads ... training body ... spiritual ... of the ... Dear Gabi san It is interesting to explore the caligraphy....
Forwarding a message from a friend. The Shambhala Gallery also have a lot of Daruma scrolls, I introduced them before. Gabi ... out http://zenart.shambhala.com...
Dear Gabi Greve, Thanks for approving my joining this group! My name is Tomomi. I am studying Buddhism in Southeast Asia, mainly Thailand. As Thai people are...
Dear Tomomi san, thank you for joining us here. Check the Main Museum Index for all the subjects covered so far. http://darumasan.blogspot.com/ I am also still...
You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things. Big things seldom come along. One should know the small as well as the big. We may all...
QUOTE: I have had my hands in clay for almost my entire life, so I consider it a great privilege to live and work in a country where ceramic arts are held in ...
Gassho Gabi I love your site! Very inspiring! I have some Daruma Sans that I painted awhile ago. I thought you might enjoy. Namo Amituofo Shi Yao Feng Shakya...
first frost -- geisha pancake on Daruma's nose (Do you have a Daruma outside? Both eyes will frost to look as though preparing for a wish of warmth!!) ai......
Takatori Ceramics: Enshu Takatori and Ko-Takatori Wares at the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts http://www.nezu-muse.or.jp/tenrankai/tenrankai_e.html Nezu Museum ...
Basho and the Dao: The Zhuangzi and the Transformation of Haikai by Peipei Qiu A Review by Robert D. Wilson Professor Peipei Qiu, an associate Professor of...
Some of the winter cattails with their molt of fluff reminded me of Daruma... his long face and beard. But with Christmas getting nearer, maybe I am thinking...
In our guestbook this morning From: Cow Lady Gabi, I just found your photo of tankis in your garden when donig a search for tanuki on the web. You are so...
Read an interesting discussion about YUKI DARUMA, snowman Daruma in Haiku versions. http://www.haikuworld.org/kukai/firstsnow.withdrawn.html Read this about...
QUOTE The Zen Poetry and Sayings Collection of Bruce Jones Listed below by author (more or less), a bunch of zen(ish) sayings, proverbs, koans, quotations,...
Two Deities to protect the medicine is Shinno Sama and the Japanese Hikona. These two deities are especially venerated in the district of Doshoo-Machi, where...
Forwarding a newsletter about wafu, the Japanese way. Here are some tenugui. Sometimes, they even come with a Daruma san. http://tinyurl.com/drt7p Long ...
Here is part of a mail I received from a (virtual) friend that I want to share with you, since it is very true, I guess. Gabi ///////////////////////////// ...
A friend gave me this lovely tea cup, could also be a pot to slurp soba, buckwheat noodles. It is added to a packet of new tea, if you buy it now at Seven...
Today the latest volume reached my desk, just in time for a few cold winter days ahead... Check it out here http://www.darumamagazine.com/ There is a Daruma on...
I am working on an article about Ennin, so I collected some information about him in our Pilgrim gallery. http://darumapilgrim.blogspot.com/2005/12/ennin.html ...
The Temple Katsuo-Ji in Mino (northern Osaka) is almost a Daruma temple in its own right. http://darumapilgrim.blogspot.com/2005/12/katsuo-ji-osaka.html ...
