StoneCutter
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Introduction | Enku made an oath to carve 120,000 Buddhas, an audacious vow that reverberates throughout all space and time. Walking through the bookstore, in the Religion aisle my three year old son remarked "Buddha's Buddha's Buddha's, I see Buddha's everywhere!" Our task is nothing less. Jung said: "The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely," to do so we must also accept the whole world. |
| Interests | Stone carving, Buddhism, whole foods (note the lack of capitalization), recovery, Householder practice |
| Favorite movies | Groundhog Day, Miyazaki movies, Rivers and Tides |
| Favorite music | Rush, Yes, Michael Hedges, Erin McKeown, Joseph Spence, Sweet Honey and the Rock, Fugazi, Minutemen, Dire Straits, the Police, Living Colour, the Cars, Bjork, Bob Marley, Ben Harper, Ry Cooder, Keb' Mo', Ani DiFranco, Madredeus, Rokia Traore, DJ Cheb Shabbah, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox, The Muppets, David Byrne, Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty, Allman Bothers, Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Los Lonely Boys, Los Lobos, Tears for Fears, Eric Serra, Howard Shore, Paramore, Queen, Evaline, Eric Whitacre, Elvis Costello, Minutemen, Rasputina, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Gao Gilberto, Asylum Street Spankers, Louis Prima, Stewart Copeland, Jimi Hendrix, Lucious Jackson, Corinne Bailey Rae, Colin Hay, Itzhak Perlman, Chet Baker, Van Morrison, ELP, Shankar, Bobby McFerrin, Herbie Hancock, BoDeans, Stone Roses, Thievery Corporation, Zero 7, CSN and ok CSNY, The Cure, Jackson Browne, Guy Clarke, the Great Smartini, Abbess Hildegaard von Bingen, Billie Holliday, Louis Armstrong, Ella, Spearhead, Adam and the Ants, Credit to the Nation, U2, Cat Stevens, Cocteau Twins, Clapton, Pretenders, Brad Mehldau, Glen Hansard, Go-Go's, Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, Morphine, Buena Vista Social Club, Cowboy Junkies, Dr. John, Lyle Lovett and his very large band, Norah Jones, Peter Murphy, The The, Sinead, Proclaimers, REM, Bonnie Raitt |
| Favorite books | Ikkyu's Crow with No Mouth, David Pye's The Nature and Art of Workmanship, Charlotte Joko Beck: Everyday Zen: Love and Work, Nothing Special: Living Zen, Thich Nhat Hanh: Old Path White Clouds, Vickie Mackenzie's Cave in the Snow, Bernie Glassman's writings, Roshi Joan Halifax's work, Seung Sahn, Katagiri, Suzuki, Ajahn Chah's Being Dharma, Kalu Rinpoche, Gary Snyder, John Bennett, Li Young Lee, W.S. Merwin, Coleman Barks' Rumi translations, Octavia Butler, William James, Joe Campbell, Anne Medlock, Janine Benyus, Peter Mattheissen, Bo Lozoff, Sean Russell, Bill Moyers, Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety, Barbara Kingsolver, Ram Dass, John Scalzi, there is no Favorite Art catagory, so Alex Grey's Transfigurations and Sacred Mirrors, John J. Muth's version of Stone Soup, Anything by Andy Goldsworthy |