Back to AtD. Shambala p.975

[Bled Welder]

I do think that Shambhala is both a location, and a destination.

I have this severely odd thing going on.  I can';t get out the Doors LA
Woman from my head.  You know, it's a great tune, it's just that it wont
leave. I can't get it out of my head.  It';s happened before, and you know
it's pointless, but it's happened twice before.  Once with Jefferson
Airplane, and I think once with Nirvana.

Was it Nirvana?  Who cares, right?  He wasn't Shambhala.

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

>    Halfcourt: "For me, Shambala, you see, turned out to be not a goal but
> an absence."
> How generalizeable (about Shambala) do we all think that might be? Is
> Halfcourt a
> vehicle of the authr's vision here?
>



> OR, whenever I read Halfcourt, I think Full Court and half-wit allusions.
> Is he not
> all there, does not go all out?
>
>  "Whatever its historical basis, Shambhala gradually came to be seen as a
> Buddhist Pure Land <http://us-mg4.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Pure_Land>, a
> fabulous kingdom whose reality is visionary or spiritual as much as
> physical or geographic. It was in this form that the Shambhala myth reached
> the West, where it influenced non-Buddhist as well as Buddhist spiritual
> seekers — and, to some extent, popular culture in general."
>
> see full wikipedia article if interested. it is interesting.
>
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