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I am so excited, I wanted to share this. I found an amazing deal on a rupa, so I bought it. It was only $49.00 USD with free shipping! Normally something this size would go for much more. I think there's more in stock if anyone is interested and likes to shop online. I can give more details.
Product specs:
Peaceful and contemplative figure of the Buddha in classic meditation pose. Antique bronze with hand-finished details. Features archetypal markings and appearance as depicted in traditional Buddha art.
That is a good price for 21" high. It is a great, beautiful rupa. I wonder if the good price is because it looks like it is offered at Lamps Plus? It could be that they do not know the value of what they could get for it. Shops that specialize in Buddhist rupas seem to charge much more.
I would get one, but my house already looks like a vihara with statues, thangkas, gongs, and cushions all over the place.
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form. John Stuart Mill
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form. John Stuart Mill
"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
I want to share my new shrine with you all
For some reason I'm having trouble getting my phone to upload a full-size pic, so I'll try to get a better one tomorrow in the daylight.
I think we'll relocate this thread to the Shrine Room now in anticipation of the higher-resolution shot!
Metta,
Retro.
"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
Hi Drolma
Thanks for sharing the story of the anicca rupa! Its a lovely statue.
As I am sure Retro will confirm, I've become a bit of a passive 'collector' of rupas as a result of very generous friends and family members.
Lovely shrine, Drolma!
Metta
Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Ben wrote:Hi Drolma
Thanks for sharing the story of the anicca rupa! Its a lovely statue.
As I am sure Retro will confirm, I've become a bit of a passive 'collector' of rupas as a result of very generous friends and family members.
Lovely shrine, Drolma!
Metta