By: sunada

sunada — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:24:34 +0000

Hi Nora,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts! You clearly get what Sogyal Rimpoche is talking about. I guess cemetaries in particular include all the stories of the people buried there, which adds to the mystery of the place. I hadn’t thought of it that way.

By: Nora Tribys

Nora Tribys — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:05:41 +0000

I live in a rural area, so nature is very easy for me to come by – I just walk out my door, or to the lake, or go a few miles inland and be in the forest, but what I have found, always, whether it be in a rural or urban area, that cemeteries are remarkable “nature” places. In urban cemeteries, I have always noted that once you walk though its gates, the world transforms, and you are IN nature, and IN a place that reminds you that we are all but flicks, feathers, in an enormous world that we don’t understand, necessarily, but profoundly affected by, just as one is by walking into a Redwood forest. All the dead people lying there, loved, and unloved, are monumental, extraordinary! I was recently in Oregon, and I was in two cemeteries, one out in the boonies and the other in a more settled area, but in each case, I realized a profound sense of Being. I would like to insert a couple of photos I took, but I don’t think I can. One of which was so important to me, was a beautiful stone sculpture/headstone of a tree, with all kinds of elaborate decorations of ferns and birds, of a man who died as a lumberjack at the age of 30 in 1894. The same year that a government imposed a ban on the open use of the Lithuanian language. This man died in Oregon making America that year and a language was tried to be killed on the other side of the world, but both live, really.
Thank you Sunada, for your thoughtfullness.

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