Another gorgeous collection of collages by Rashani Réa, with words by the renowned Vajrayana teacher, Reggie Ray.In her elegant, textured collages, Rashani offers us colorful, crazy-wisdom, koan-like pointers, written by the renowned Vajrayana teacher, Reggie Ray. I invite you to gaze at each page "like a child enrapt before an altar in a temple." (-Dudjom Rinpoche)Réa and Ray share a similar intimacy with all that is. A sense of timeless wonder is activated by this particular conflation of images and words, allowing the viewer to drop effortlessly into the depths of being, into the state of "wishlessness," where nothing needs to be different than it is. Every collage is a beautiful tapestry and dance of Shakti and Shiva.
About the Author: A devoted earth steward, Rashani Réa interweaves earth-based traditions and self inquiry with Buddhist and Process Oriented psychology, Psychosynthesis, deep ecology, Soetry (song and poetry), shamanism, and the nondual/direct approach. During the past 26 years, she has co-created 2 dharma-Gaia eco-sanctuaries on the Big Island of Hawai'i, where she currently resides. A strong and gentle eco-feminist voice in the inter-spiritual movement since 1986, Rashani offers concerts, councils, kirtans, rituals, and retreats throughout the world and at her home-in the remote district of Ka'u. She has recorded 15 albums of songs, devotional chants, and poetry, and is the creatrix of 22 books and an extensive collection of unique greeting cards, which celebrate the wisdom of many ancient and contemporary teachers, mystics, poets, singer/song writers, sages, spiritual pioneers, and holy rebels. www.rashani.com Dr. Reginald "Reggie" Ray is the co-founder and Spiritual Director of the Dharma Ocean Foundation and University Professor (retired) at Naropa University. In addition to his work with his root guru, Trungpa Rinpoche, Reggie has studied with many accomplished masters of the Nyingma and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Budhism and Zen. He has also worked with indigenous teachers from North and South America and Africa, including a close and transformative friendship with the gifted African shaman, Malidome Somé. In 1974, at the invitation of Trungpa Rinpoche, Reggie left a tenure-track position at Indiana University and relocated to Boulder, Colorado- then the center of Trungpa Rinpoche's community-to become the first full-time faculty member and chair of the Buddhist Studies Department at Naropa University, where he taught until his retirement in July 2009. Reggie also served on the Nalanda Translation Committee and held a half-time appointment in the Religious studies department at the University of Colorado. Since the age of 20, Reggie has explored somatic teachings east and west, traditional and modern, such as Yoga and Qi Gung, and traditions such as the work of Gerda Alexander, Rolfing, and Hakomi therapy and therapeutic techniques. He now incorporates much of the wisdom of these earth-based lineages and traditions into his teaching, believing that Vajrayana is essentially an earth-based tradition already. www.dharmaocean.org