[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: How Beautiful It Is: A Thanksgiving Quote

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

November 26, 2003

How Beautiful It Is!

A Thanksgiving Quote

How beautiful is red! How beautiful is yellow! How beautiful is green! How 
beautiful is blue! How beautiful is gray! When we look around, how 
beautiful it is. How beautiful to see a person sitting upright enjoying 
their meal. How good to see a person taking a shower, lathering their hair. 
How good it is, a person shaving. How good it is, the ladies combing their 
hair. They comb their hair as if it were the mane of a Shambhala tiger or a 
lion's mane -- whether they use hair dryers or not. We are always good 
warriors of Shambhala: good tigers, good lions, good garudas, good dragons, 
with great teeth, beautiful shiny faces, beautiful hands. How beautiful the 
demeanor of human existence!
 From GREAT EASTERN SUN: THE WISDOM OF SHAMBHALA pp. 185-186 (Shambhala 
Publications)


En Francais (apologies for the lack of diacritics):

         Le rouge est pure merveille! Le jaune est pure merveille! Le vert 
est pure merveille! Le bleu est pure merveille! Le gris est pure merveille! 
Lorsqu'on regards tout autour, tout est pure merveille. Qu'il est 
merveilleux de voir quelqu'un assis bien droit savourer son repas. Qu'il 
est bon de voir quelqu'un se savonner les cheveux sous le douche. De voir 
un homme se raser ou une femme se coiffer. Elle peigne ses cheveux comme si 
c'etait la criniere d'un tigre de Shambhala ou celle d'un lion, qu'elle 
utilise un sechoir ou non. Nous sommes toujours de bons guerriers de 
Shambhala, de bons tigres, de bons lions, de bons gardudas, de bons 
dragons, avec d'excellentes dents, des visages merveilleusement eclaires et 
de tres belles mains. Le comportement humain a quelque chose de merveilleux.

         LA SAGESSE DE SHAMBHALA, p. 187  (Editions du Seuil)


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