Monday, August 17, 2009

Monday morning music

A friend of mine posted this on her facebook page. It's the Chinese Dance of the Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva, and since I'm 25% Asian and a huge Steely Dan fan, I thought I'd repost it here. Thanks BBC....enjoy!



"A Bodhisattva is motivated by pure compassion and love. Their goal is to achieve the highest level of being: that of a Buddha. Bodhisattva is a Sanskrit term which translates as: Bodhi [enlightenment] and sattva [being]. And their reason for becoming a Buddha is to help others. The Bodhisattva will undergo any type of suffering to help another sentient being, whether a tiny insect or a huge mammal. In Shakyamuni Buddha’s 'Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Lines' it states: “I will become a savior to all those beings, I will release them from all their sufferings.” If this sounds familiar to anyone not acquainted with Buddhism, then you only need to think of the example of Jesus Christ, a true Bodhisattva."

From essortment.com.

3 comments:

  1. Being a dancer's mom & having served a decade+ as a stage Mom- note the 2 'spotters' on either side of this stage...they are keeping the timing 'on' as these lovely dancers are deaf!! Truly Amazing!! :-)/BBC

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  2. What's a stage-mom? Were you a pageant mom?
    How do you know the dancers are deaf?

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  3. Great song!! Great dancing!! No way those chicks are deaf. How many oriental deaf girls can dance and look like that. Not good odds in my sick mind..

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