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Na Mo Kuan Shih Yin Pu Sa, Na Mo Kuan Shih Yin Pu SaNa Mo Kuan Shih Yin Pu SaNa Mo Kuan Shih Yin Pu SaNa Mo Kuan Shih Yin Pu SaNa Mo Kuan Shih Yin Pu SaNa Mo Kuan Shih Yin Pu SaNa Mo Kuan Shih Yin Pu SaNa Mo Kuan Shih Yin Pu SaNa Mo Kuan Shih Yin Pu SaNa Mo Kuan Shih Yin Pu SaNa Mo Kuan Shih Yin Pu SaNa Mo Kuan Shih Yin Pu SaThe Mantra: The name Kuan Shih Yin is Kumarajiva's direct translation of Avalokitesvara.Namo/Namu: A transliteration of Namah, neaning "Hail". It has come to connote devotion, reverence, or taking refuge, as well as actually invoking a a spiritual presence.Kuan/Guan/Kwan/Kan: Observe, see, regard, pay heed.Shih/The/Se/Ze: The World.Yin/Am/Um/On: Sound, Cries, Voice.Pusa/Botat/Bosal/Bosatsu: A transliteration of Bodhisattva.This is chanted with the spirit of a loving mother calling her lost child. I do not chant this to ask for blessings; I chant to cultivate the same compassion embodied by Kuan Yin. Hail! Regard the World's Cries, Bodhisattva.

My Interests

Kuan Yin (??; Pinyin: Guan Yin) is the bodhisattva of compassion as venerated by East Asian Buddhists, usually as a female. Kuan Yin originated as the Sanskrit Avalokitesvara, which is her male form. Commonly known in the West as the Goddess of Mercy, Kuan Yin is also revered by Chinese Taoists as an Immortal. The name Kuan Yin is short for Kuan Shih Yin (Py.: Guan Shì Yin) which means "Observing the Sounds of the World".

I'd like to meet:

and now the flowers go to sleepthe sun destroys itself with nightthe children lucky with their bedssqueeze their mothers hard and tightnobody knows what moment comesbefore their eyes, against their earsbut bravery is all that standsagainst the blackness of our fears.-Gallo Quarenta De Buscillo, 1885

Music:

Another Bad Creation, FELA, Bobby D, Flava Flav, Tommy Makem

Movies:

I'm Mad as Hell and I am not going to take it anymore! Go Go to your window, open it up... (born to brothels, murderball, and network.)

Television:

A PURPLEXICON OF DISSYNTHEGRATIONS (TDEVELOP ABUT EARFLUXSATISVIE-THRU- HEYPERSIEVING)punziplaze karmasokist DecoYen Pompieraeianscaruscatracery timmedigets outrége Opinductspretensnarrant MustEVit spirackrete broidevelinducound proleany conclueshunning eeriesponsybilgreak trystsparklers misshits AmerdealityChroameo thoualkt dienernlarging sklaferryethquikability vichycles eunipursonality woarshipslibigo moodeaffex crallrighting sublimasturbwalloaminds dwintrospective nackuracy infriskingevypressoar pronownshamentos creallocateselfoistenuto bitacting pleastic Amerfortsnegassing stillyfrememuse syntherile coroutsnoub examplimations FanelliHopper marvellustybroachure sprnyde WIldeal equitty skafloutfearl Gallopheel sexpect huevents kissimmerwilldid puearlvoice alcohawlic gushotwrympersonal self-conscious inshintuate whoamanallustration essensual aesthound cosmasspectionplastrepoise infalliable ejaculiss spectacklerestcue terrifugalee phornotgraphy senseemindedfolsiedead pirouethink sklafeatus democrapickykeylusion wellded conattension mechallousshriekreen pierc[i]1lver insite dability colorganiseslyting selfpitter IntOne lyreams negrowismsmeateorvalue permcore disjinncts cloakullwomankneeless vocabullery squrdge psychlicfactidya spurmport punaLludIT philocityprecipidwell decksquisit initoutpourpretensassentsualimbs bullycose freaxtreams reliefaughulthink Tootons synexdochrowth plastragglebumpalludes preocreation missoarientationspraggressiv ovarylease temperanant whoboozertolernjoy repmew chucklut anarchetype ioteafollowswuppers Aeoloyrpegging calculallowhoptimystic shrewmord obliterary smellspectsoneyes decoyr factea readch pleorgasmrenaissorganise psickisms imnexplicit plissteningstatUresklye purrhaps hillycredulosity padmirmedykasting raspirations graphickle ecstensievetellesclewtinates infaccuraceize pticklup Expatriaintshintstructions gadjects tainterior utiliteraryscourfelnthesis harmonkey explerimincecalligraphour imputility phallacious yappetisingstintuitiv pickuppety tryganise counterphitharmonicallush enfaithrants prymate graphorrorfurthrallusions sodgesire psychrowcess denticipateperceptarea-ise nousquince abstenced enhewgeConductours impklick prepperysense vapremoteplastcoince reachieve cleanxpect arrabiffonscerebriscretion mischerché looklist himportfreequality cerebrawl harrigant plastralsuberblatulence blasexalté bidées goolustrationrawcoreal writempo sentimiews presumaybesiloction aperfeeling meticulately vapmospheardontdizzymeres nextricing Angloaming whirdeationsfreasonable feeligns cernamic flatublosoproecursing adjectimeagers punditty anonymintakeoughtobografickl ginferences cackontrast artburnsnifficant tright Chiricous pp

Books:

"My love will come…" -- To B. AkhmadulinaMy love will come, will fold me in her arms, will notice all the changes, will understand my apprehensions.From the pouring dark, the infernal gloom, forgetting to close the taxi door, she'll dash up the rickety steps all flushed with joy and longing.Drenched, she'll burst in, without a knock, Will take my head in her hands, and from a chair her blue fur coat will slip blissfully to the floor. -Yevtushenko

Heroes:

My Adrenal Gland and yours

My Blog

(Something in parentheses)

I know. Its been a long time. For those of you who care. I do care. I miss Gallo myself. I have two pieces of news:-I have stumbled upon an epic poem, of unknown authorship, given to me by Gallo's dis...
Posted by Ben F on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:43:00 PST

A meeting with Hommonculus

I hate to admit it but the fax machine saved my life. It galls me to be honest because the fax machine hasn’t really done much for me up to now, and here it is, sweeping in with something as big...
Posted by Ben F on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:14:00 PST

Hans in a Cave, Libby in a Church, Sophie in an Office, Gallo in a Coach

The rope which is stretched along the length of the diagonal of a rectangle produces an area which the vertical and horizontal sides make together. The Sulva Sutras Baudhyana, 800 BC   Hans V...
Posted by Ben F on Fri, 18 May 2007 09:24:00 PST

Two Friends From Lisbon Part Two:

Then the face of baby Isabella was glowing in the middle of the light and she was speaking, "return...return...return...Gallo" . Gallo was in the back room again standing and holding his Isabella plat...
Posted by Ben F on Tue, 01 May 2007 07:39:00 PST

Two Friends In Lisbon, Part 1

Ghost Names   It is little known among the living but sometimes ghosts take on new names or "ghost names" upon their passing. When ghost names occur the ghost has no recollection of its living ...
Posted by Ben F on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:42:00 PST

Some Contemporary News

People people people. Since last I conveyed material regarding Gallo Cuarenta De Buscillo to you forces beyond my control or understanding have moved to stop this process whereby people learn about an...
Posted by Ben F on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:16:00 PST

The Road, a Cart, a Message, a Challenge

The macadam road surface was hard below Gallo's feet when, hung over and cried dry, he finally drug himself from the hose barn and into the light. Steinitz has only poems and Gallo's journal entries t...
Posted by Ben F on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:22:00 PST

Source Material From Ellicott's Mills

Excerpt From Diary of Ebert Cornthwaite, found in an old mill basement in historic Oella, MD. (Oella is the town next to Ellicott City. Ellicott City was previously known as Elilicott's Mills and was...
Posted by Ben F on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:26:00 PST

Of Hobo's, Baptists and Holiness

As with any historical artifact, any word or phrase that rings down the years through our mouths to our ears and evokes something, the word Hobo has a contested set of definitions. Some say it comes...
Posted by Ben F on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:38:00 PST

Jenny, Jewels, Hair and Hans

Younger Jenny, Older Jenny Some say the Creole's came directly from Mali and Senegal to Louisiana. There are scores of definitions of what Creole means. Yet, like so many words which are associated...
Posted by Ben F on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:52:00 PST