WORLD PREMIERE! Ao Tea Roa for Brass Quintet Featuring Award-Winning trombonist Alexandru Moraru and Bowling Green Graduate Brass Quintet The Concert took place in Brian Hall, Bowling Green State University in Ohio on April 24, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.

New Performance(s)!

Left to right: Sarah, Olga, Mihai, Liz, Kim

“Bodhicitta, the excellent and precious mind –
Where it is unborn, may it arise;
Where it is born, may it not decline,
But ever increase higher and higher.”

 Short transcription:

When you feel the intuition -the sense "I am"- and is not linking with anything else.
[...]
When it has any interest in future or past. When is not hunger for association. [...] When is not influenced by holiness that beautiful intuition that you are now aware of which stands by itself, dwells in itself, that is the godly principle in you, the earliest manifestation of the eternal principle in form.
That feeling "I am" is the God-Self in you.

~ Mooji

 

Flapping flag
Four monks were meditating in a monastery. All of a sudden the prayer flag on the roof started flapping.
The younger monk came out of his meditation and said: "Flag is flapping"
A more experienced monk said: "Wind is flapping"
A third monk who had been there for more than 20 years said: "Mind is flapping."
The fourth monk who was the eldest said: "Mouths are flapping!"

From Buddhist fun and jokes

Opportunity knocks.
Karma hunts you down.

 

"Pain is not suffering. Ignorance is suffering"

Beba

"A child asked her mother as to why she cut the head and the tail of fish while preparing the dish. Mother told that her own mother used to do like this. The child asked her nanny the same question and got the same answer. By chance, the child had her grand nanny also living. When she visited her in summer vacations, she posed the same question to her too. The grand nanny replied, “The pan in my kitchen was small and therefore I had to cut the head and the tail of the fish!”

This story tells us how we follow ways of doing things from our parents without even examining the logic behind them. Some archaic ways of doing things continue sine die just because we do not care to examine their relevance today.

Anyone interested should read the book “I’m OK. You’re OK.” by Thomas A. Harris, M.D.

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) German-born American Physicist

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

- B. F. Skinner (1904-1990)

“For there is nothing inaccessible for death. All beings are fond of life, hate pain, like pleasure, shun destruction, like life, long to live. To all life is dear.” ~ venerable Mahavir, Acharanga Sutra

 

..."Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right."  Henry Ford  

"We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are "news"; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored".

The Dalai Lama

 

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

- Derek Bok

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." - attributed to numerous personalities, including Vince Lombardi and Vidal Sassoon

"It is true that it hurts more to fall from higher heights but if you will, you can still remember how good it feels to be up there!"
Dorian Brooks

"I give up the hope that I will ever get it and I give up the fear that I never will..." Longchenpa

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