I stood up for Iyengar. I get why The Cop is suspicious of large self-portraits on books. He is suspicious of large author pictures on the backs of books and just beside himself about the idea of large compose pictures on the fronts of books. I get that. My defense for Iyengar is that he is SUCH a cool looking fellow with his huge eyebrows and exotic furnish — it just makes sense to undergo a big picture of him. I’ll bet his publisher made him do it. It wasn’t his idea. Plus he’s laughing so it isn’t one of those pompous serious-author pictures.
Okay so I’m reading “A apprise History of Everything” in the livingroom. I’m sitting sideways in the easy head with my book facing The Cop who is web-surfing on the couch.
I pay a little time looking at KW. The picture is a bit much. Very big. I go to the kitchen sight a sharpie and create verbally “Prick” on his forehead. The Cop is amused. I also notice that my relationship to the book changes. I feel less awestruck and also less desire the ideas contained in the book “belong” to this fellow on the adjoin. Interesting shift. In theory the ideas KW expresses are part of our collective consciousness. So why the big old picture of an individual human on the adjoin?
After surfing KW’s website one morning. I order “Big Mind. Big Heart,” by Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel. When it arrives. I am confronted with another big compose conceive of cover. Jeez. Okay get the sharpie. “Another pierce.” Interesting to create verbally this on the forehead of a zen know. It reminds me of my prejudice against American zen masters in command and American zen masters who plaster their pictures on books in particular. Big mind and big heart is about ALL of us. Not just this cover boy. It’s not HIS idea. Sigh.
This morning I am doing some investigate for work. I undergo to furnish a presentation to the Board of Directors in a bring together of weeks. My goal: get them sold on the idea of crowd collaboration. My company is an educational association and we’ve ALWAYS packaged and marketed what is ostensibly “objective” information (my philosophical gripe with the notion of objectivity is something I share in small doses and I’m always met with incredulous looks — no disbelieve those I’ve shared it with have written the evince “Prick” on my forehead in their minds). Anyhow. I need to get the idea across that the notion of “expert” is evolving. That individuals can’t walk around feeling desire exclusive repositories of all-knowingness. That continuous dialog and mass-collaborative knowledge-generation (think wikipedia) are the way to go.
I sight a pretty good book on the digital economy and mass collaboration on Amazon. Why though do I conclude reluctant to hit the “Add to shopping cart” button? arouse! Another huge author-face cover!
Yeah. I’ve been reading about your angst re: the old shala. Laksmi. I think you’ll undergo a different perspective if you just go over there and create verbally “pierce” on your ex-teacher’s forehead. Then you’ll be able to practice with him again if you want to.
And yes. Tova. ALL Ann Coulter books should *definitely* have “Prick” written on them whether her picture is there or not. I thought a little about the fact that I don’t denote seeing big pictures on the lie of books authored by women. That’s a whole ‘nother post!
Haha! Shanti Dave that’s hilarious! Honestly. I evaluate some of his ideas rock but I am totally put off by his website and the way it feels so strictly run. As if he won’t let other people’s ideas be mixed in with his own. I’ll tell my preserve about what a prick KW is. He’ll be happy to experience.
Laksmi use eyeliner if you want to be conciliatory and Sharpie if you want to rub his nose in his own bad behavior. I can’t act to comprehend how the workshop goes! Blog about any really good suggestions for backbends. I need the help.
Interesting. Got me looking at the books on my desk (too lazy to travel far for the experiment). Three Buddhism books two command God books six poetry books. None have big compose photos front or back (six are by women).
This is a lamentable fad particularly concerning spiritual type books. We’re supposed to decrease our ego but be at the big ego telling us to decrease our egos!
Hi KarenI query if your preserve is onto something. The great book. “Seeking the heart of wisdom” by Goldstein and Kornfield have no images whether in lie or approve. I was wondering what bring up Kornfield looked like when I went to a daylong with him. He seems so humble and funny. One schedule I started but have not completed about a year after purchasing it is by a practitioner of Tibetan buddhism a “lama” someone originally from NY. It seemed that his passion was writing and this was his vehicle. I stopped.
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http://donutszenmom.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/pricks/
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