this book.......
profound....
it helped me see how
far off my true path i've wandered...
i have to share this passage from the book....
"This is the same fire that burned with the blast from Hiroshima," Masanori Oe says to me,
pointing to a small brass lantern on a table in front of us with a tiny flame burning inside.
"This very flame?" I ask taken aback somewhat.
"Yes. It has been kept burning, passed on from person to person to help us each remember
what happened that day, and how it must not happen again."
He explains that in August 1945, a woman who lost her son in the bombing went to the city
while it was still burning and, believing that the spirit of her son was inside that flame,
captured a bit of fire and brought it to her home a hundred miles away. She kept it burning
for more than twenty years, and then passed it on to a Buddhist priest, who decided to make
it a symbol of peace, and took the flame on a walking pilgrimage across Japan, burning in
a lantern, and passed it on to others, lighting new lanterns for those who would take the flame."
this book is about "simple living and inner abundance"....
of being one with nature...
art....
music...
creativity....
sustainable living....
of walking lightly...
upon this earth...
2 comments:
What an amazing thing that woman did and so sad that now Japan may have something similar happen but for a natural disaster instead of an act of war. I hope things get better for them. I will have to search out this book, thanks.
it is truely beyond my comprehension what those people are going through.....and with such dignity and compassion for each other. i hope you find and enjoy this book. thanks for visiting linda.
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