Thursday, November 13, 2008

Gremlin Merit



A gremlin broke into my
house and put my lost hat in
a paper bag with my oryoki
kit. I was so glad to find
it there (especially there). Thanks
gremlin. You'll hopefully get
lots of merit for this deed.

3 oryoki bowls
star gremlin
bag
X hat
lost hat from San Deigo

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What is a oryoki kit?

Kim Mosley said...

http://tinyurl.com/6xxxsh describes Oryoki

Oryoki–"just enough"– synchronises body and mind through bringing mindfulness to how we eat. Doing oryoki, in the prescribed manner and sequence we use, follows a tradition that began in Zen Buddhist monasteries and has been adopted by our community to promote synchronicity of mind and body.
(from: http://www.shambhala.org/oryoki.php)

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