BODDHI LOVES :: Thich Nath Han [Living Masters]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdRCcCdg7LJUCCb8cEV21KxirBKKraUExj2816EdghwhD3DcGE5-q_NhNzm8dQatN7IjNHoD5eSAC__OOvgL8VIek6a0zKkBcXubICmt6dVvF2osCghXuRrZjgmnswwVWZ4SYiQaE1aN8/s1600/rev-martin-luther-king-jr-meets-vietnamese-buddhist-monk-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdRCcCdg7LJUCCb8cEV21KxirBKKraUExj2816EdghwhD3DcGE5-q_NhNzm8dQatN7IjNHoD5eSAC__OOvgL8VIek6a0zKkBcXubICmt6dVvF2osCghXuRrZjgmnswwVWZ4SYiQaE1aN8/s320/rev-martin-luther-king-jr-meets-vietnamese-buddhist-monk-1.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had this post half-finished waiting to be published for a few months now. Today, while celebrating Martin Luther King's birthday and legacy, is perhaps the best time to share my (re)discovery of Thich Nhat Hanh, a living boddhisattva. A Vietnamese monk, poet, scholar, and peace activist, Thich Nath Hahn has been known for his life long efforts to generate world peace and reconciliation founded on the Buddhist teachings of interconnectedness of all beings. His approach has been to combine a variety of traditional & <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Zen">Zen</a> teachings with methods from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theravada" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Theravada">Theravada</a> Buddhism and insights from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Mahayana">Mahayana</a> Buddhism. In the 60s, he traveled to the U.S. and was giving lectures, urging the U.S. government to withdraw from Vietnam. He had meetings with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr." style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Martin Luther King, Jr.">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a>, inspiring him to publicly oppose the Vietnam War; King nominated Hanh for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Nobel Peace Prize">Nobel Peace Prize</a> in January 1967.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In a recent trip to San Francisco, in the guest room I was staying in, I found a book entitled<i> The Sun My Heart </i>which turned out to be written by Thich Nath Hahn. As a seeker, I believe that when one fully accepts one's life mission, the universe will open up doors to guide one's search (and challenges as well). This book was one of those life's gifts.   </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq6dWczeC1tECqKyD2dsErHz8b_p_7J2SxEnpo72j88cS_j4bDX7WFbKhu4oqdESpYj-rXR31GSxui8WGMUnbdv9q5chAqRki8Exo5_t7gMWg_r4VUfpBCg5l-MMDvwHtMi54mvtr11QA/s1600/SunMyHeart-ThichNathHanh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq6dWczeC1tECqKyD2dsErHz8b_p_7J2SxEnpo72j88cS_j4bDX7WFbKhu4oqdESpYj-rXR31GSxui8WGMUnbdv9q5chAqRki8Exo5_t7gMWg_r4VUfpBCg5l-MMDvwHtMi54mvtr11QA/s1600/SunMyHeart-ThichNathHanh.jpg" /></a></div><i><b>THE LETTER OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR TO NOMINATE THICH NATH HAN FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE</b></i></div><div style="color: #666666;">1967 25, January</div><div style="color: #666666;">The Nobel Institute</div><div style="color: #666666;">Drammesnsveien 19</div><div style="color: #666666;">Oslo, NORWAY </div><div style="color: #666666;"><br /></div><div style="color: #666666;">Gentlemen: </div><div style="color: #666666;">As the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate of 1964, I now have the pleasure of proposing to you the name of Thich Nhat Hanh for that award in 1967. I do not personally know of anyone more worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize than this gentle Buddhist monk from Vietnam.</div><div style="color: #666666;"><br /></div><div style="color: #666666;">This would be a notably auspicious year for you to bestow your Prize on the Venerable Nhat Hanh. Here is an apostle of peace and non-violence, cruelly separated from his own people while they are oppressed by a vicious war which has grown to threaten the sanity and security of the entire world. </div><div style="color: #666666;">Because no honor is more respected than the Nobel Peace Prize, conferring the Prize on Nhat Hanh would itself be a most generous act of peace. It would remind all nations that men of good will stand ready to lead warring elements out of an abyss of hatred and destruction. It would re-awaken men to the teaching of beauty and love found in peace. It would help to revive hopes for a new order of justice and harmony.</div><div style="color: #666666;"><br /></div><div style="color: #666666;">I know Thich Nhat Hanh, and am privileged to call him my friend. Let me share with you some things I know about him. You will find in this single human being an awesome range of abilities and interests. </div><div style="color: #666666;">He is a holy man, for he is humble and devout. He is a scholar of immense intellectual capacity. The author of ten published volumes, he is also a poet of superb clarity and human compassion. His academic discipline is the Philosophy of Religion, of which he is Professor at Van Hanh, the Buddhist University he helped found in Saigon. He directs the Institute for Social Studies at this University. This amazing man also is editor of Thien My, an influential Buddhist weekly publication. And he is Director of Youth for Social Service, a Vietnamese institution which trains young people for the peaceable rehabilitation of their country.</div><div style="color: #666666;">  </div><div style="color: #666666;">Thich Nhat Hanh today is virtually homeless and stateless. If he were to return to Vietnam, which he passionately wishes to do, his life would be in great peril. He is the victim of a particularly brutal exile because he proposes to carry his advocacy of peace to his own people. What a tragic commentary this is on the existing situation in Vietnam and those who perpetuate it. <br /><br /></div><div style="color: #666666;">The history of Vietnam is filled with chapters of exploitation by outside powers and corrupted men of wealth, until even now the Vietnamese are harshly ruled, ill-fed, poorly housed, and burdened by all the hardships and terrors of modern warfare. <br /><br /></div><div style="color: #666666;"><b>Thich Nhat Hanh offers a way out of this nightmare, a solution acceptable to rational leaders. He has traveled the world, counseling statesmen, religious leaders, scholars and writers, and enlisting their support. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to </b><b>world brotherhood</b><b>, to humanity. </b><br /><br /></div><div style="color: #666666;">I respectfully recommend to you that you invest his cause with the acknowledged grandeur of the Nobel Peace Prize of 1967. Thich Nhat Hanh would bear this honor with grace and humility. </div><div style="color: #666666;">Sincerely, </div><div style="color: #666666;">Martin Luther King, Jr.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/V6VycjCq6sE?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/V6VycjCq6sE?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRZZJYTrGRdUmlObpfU32M-K5iKo1w6AS8NwCZtonrQgiSIuSkiTJmS-FvSBrJCpDW3x822UZfZ1kVU3F8AksElUFW-BH-1KYpR5WtGxxuc5hQz98vbeDLjanhtPBgguBU9wVri521txE/s1600/ThichnatHan-SunMyHeart-lichiban.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRZZJYTrGRdUmlObpfU32M-K5iKo1w6AS8NwCZtonrQgiSIuSkiTJmS-FvSBrJCpDW3x822UZfZ1kVU3F8AksElUFW-BH-1KYpR5WtGxxuc5hQz98vbeDLjanhtPBgguBU9wVri521txE/s1600/ThichnatHan-SunMyHeart-lichiban.jpg" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRN1fm8IHAZe8CZoki5O4wFgw0FlXIwqH-iggRSu7q2iLR4fxF9Bu81jij5hG13AbJSgeWKWKRJMj6j6icv1IcNrmg4wcw-r-vpBSe5Epj12VArEhhJdGUpS7w1-cXNSRtzZuxdk2e81w/s1600/ThichNatHan-SunMyHeart2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRN1fm8IHAZe8CZoki5O4wFgw0FlXIwqH-iggRSu7q2iLR4fxF9Bu81jij5hG13AbJSgeWKWKRJMj6j6icv1IcNrmg4wcw-r-vpBSe5Epj12VArEhhJdGUpS7w1-cXNSRtzZuxdk2e81w/s1600/ThichNatHan-SunMyHeart2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XPCGsZJ2IxtJmT34ZkjFm9sr3vKeVuhrutPLivXn8bAqDWsV2UP76J3tHytIDm1NJFjDd1_SARNDUs36OU11DL5OhQQdyLC81-wp6fqNjC_NF0RyxbCsFcD4QdZusWZbSmnT6HGTgnU/s1600/ThichNatHan-SunMyHeart3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XPCGsZJ2IxtJmT34ZkjFm9sr3vKeVuhrutPLivXn8bAqDWsV2UP76J3tHytIDm1NJFjDd1_SARNDUs36OU11DL5OhQQdyLC81-wp6fqNjC_NF0RyxbCsFcD4QdZusWZbSmnT6HGTgnU/s1600/ThichNatHan-SunMyHeart3.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><object height="437" width="550"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mG3PEoJpYBs?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mG3PEoJpYBs?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="550" height="437"></embed></object></span></div> I recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sun-Heart-Thich-Nhat-Hanh/dp/0938077120">to find a copy of </a><i>The Sun My Heart</i>, or any other works of Thich Nath Hahn. You can also find more essays & retreat schedule on the site of <a href="http://www.plumvillage.org/">Plum Village</a>, the community he'd founded in France.

BODDHI LOVES :: Thich Nath Han [Living Masters]

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GALAKTIKAT presents: WEZN & LICHIBAN is LUX27

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a shoot I did with WEZN back in the summer for my GALAKTIKAT show. we called the project <a href="http://lux27.tumblr.com/">LUX27. </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">light painting photography by <a href="http://www.myspace.com/weznlightpainting">WEZN</a> :: top & earrings by </span><a href="http://marijbrooklyn.net/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mari J Brooklyn</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> :: creative direction by Lichiban</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWrzLPvQWDgv83IFwt_MAffmnua9NQiQrYWa60AEaK8XRK1HQbBJ9PrltqkUaO2fezqPr10LdnoqRfPrJ39AOx3v43DR-reK-gjyZ8HlAOxkZcEk2UcI_a72SU8IH1sLQ_buE-8QgEFCo/s1600/Lichiban-WEZN-woods-mixL600-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWrzLPvQWDgv83IFwt_MAffmnua9NQiQrYWa60AEaK8XRK1HQbBJ9PrltqkUaO2fezqPr10LdnoqRfPrJ39AOx3v43DR-reK-gjyZ8HlAOxkZcEk2UcI_a72SU8IH1sLQ_buE-8QgEFCo/s1600/Lichiban-WEZN-woods-mixL600-1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><b>manifest</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFo8DulFX3RUJr3seJRMA1qbk8rpMzCWRpUlNUYZYtI8bMxdR6cgAsH8q8NQDye0pUosilaK_4SdMTUy0YMZPNIFQgpMJ_ya2LfHoctyfY_K-N4LbT-7Bi-yZRHy7KPvsdQjepimL5hzw/s1600/LichibanWEZNcollab1-800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFo8DulFX3RUJr3seJRMA1qbk8rpMzCWRpUlNUYZYtI8bMxdR6cgAsH8q8NQDye0pUosilaK_4SdMTUy0YMZPNIFQgpMJ_ya2LfHoctyfY_K-N4LbT-7Bi-yZRHy7KPvsdQjepimL5hzw/s1600/LichibanWEZNcollab1-800.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://lichiban.blogspot.com/search/label/BODDHI">BODDHI</a> </b>is welcomed on Planet Earth by I-CHI, the young Fire Liogon. He is in a state of excitement...yeeeeeeeee</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrLDnINmhyjp3mGWuvcPS9gFQwkCdtvV1yQFIzyxJl4uO_97fmxdJvYFAJQWNjiqReLk-WDZgdzUKs_0iorI0lGTFfFSA0yRVE5uto4x6l9BYAKXUQw7W3DMW41XHfOPtBmHZPOgYcpeQ/s1600/Lichiban-LUX27-Lotuscrew1-600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrLDnINmhyjp3mGWuvcPS9gFQwkCdtvV1yQFIzyxJl4uO_97fmxdJvYFAJQWNjiqReLk-WDZgdzUKs_0iorI0lGTFfFSA0yRVE5uto4x6l9BYAKXUQw7W3DMW41XHfOPtBmHZPOgYcpeQ/s1600/Lichiban-LUX27-Lotuscrew1-600.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F5927667&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=00ffdd"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F5927667&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=00ffdd" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object>   <a href="http://soundcloud.com/pretty-much-amazing/gorillaz-superfast-jellyfish-feat-gruff-rhys-and-de-la-soul">Gorillaz - Superfast Jellyfish (Feat. Gruff Rhys and De La Soul)</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/pretty-much-amazing">Pretty Much Amazing</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">top by Mari J Brooklyn // crocheted boots by House of Nassat</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzl6mLixqEJYZzcQDeSPx6FNwYDDpyL6BrS6o3B5oNkoMOOF9x5WjfZ9dacSvj-d6j2klInrujUH4RK2MfRX12iVAu6OCrnY_ZWFJP9Jm-DWh1UV-EEigdLXun4FcJ_BP7fCnV7ndIYBE/s1600/Lichiban-LOTUSshaolinallfiles3-600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzl6mLixqEJYZzcQDeSPx6FNwYDDpyL6BrS6o3B5oNkoMOOF9x5WjfZ9dacSvj-d6j2klInrujUH4RK2MfRX12iVAu6OCrnY_ZWFJP9Jm-DWh1UV-EEigdLXun4FcJ_BP7fCnV7ndIYBE/s1600/Lichiban-LOTUSshaolinallfiles3-600.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

GALAKTIKAT presents: WEZN & LICHIBAN is LUX27

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BODDHI loves....ENKI & DION

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPYWEqxBTAASTie13xBqKiM0nnntPhYn7FlbXuV91lE7fx_h8MPirMEDwUGZZA1Yd7vbwqGmRUchXJHoSCP1syEFR4LnZ8Wb51Ekzul0Km5lYhGTeWGdtb5xAu808oo1_utDlCozf5wU0/s1600/ENKI-Lichiban-magicroom2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rDS-6kmRtSE?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rDS-6kmRtSE?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://enkienki.com/">ENKI</a> aka Erika Buestami </div><div style="text-align: left;">She was one of the peoples in my life that I drew before she came into my life. She & I put our powers together to do the first of the BODDHI series: she produced the track and edited the video...yes, she is the bomb.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Shewill be DJing and will be co-hosting the open mic with ou mutual friend, Johnny Voltik at my GALAKTIKAT show this Saturday. Stay tuned for more Lichiban x ENKI collabos.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">she can be very funny....check out Enki as Fat Elvis</div><div style="text-align: center;">FAT ELVIS MIXTAPE the heart throb causing cardiac arrests all across America one burger at a time</div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="81" width="100%"><param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fsoundalien%2Ffat-elvis&"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fsoundalien%2Ffat-elvis&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed></object><a href="http://soundcloud.com/soundalien/fat-elvis">FAT ELVIS</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/soundalien">SOUND ALIEN</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">So the other female on the painting Enki was sitting next to reminded me of Enki's band mate, singer& guitarist DION, and (I'm not even surprised) it manifested next to her at the video shoot I was involved not so long ago. Dion is another one of my favorites, she's definitely got feline powers...she can sing, rock the guitar and she is also a visual artist/graphic designer. You can meet her at my show, she will be one of my hostesses.</div><div><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/DIONMAC-lichiban1.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>STAY tuned to find out who is going to be the first BODDHI avatar, to be revealed soon.</b></div></div>

BODDHI loves....ENKI & DION

ENKI aka Erika Buestami She was one of the peoples in my life that I drew before she came into my life. She & I put our powers togethe...

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BODDHI is BACK!

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">"Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly." </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(Meditation in Action, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche)</span><br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/BOODHI-lichiban-WEZN1600.jpg" /><br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/WEZN-lichiban17-600BoddhiLove.jpg" /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">My intergalactic cat shaman, the shapeshifting dimension-slicer jedi of Mt. Golden Blossom, </span><a href="http://lichiban.blogspot.com/search/label/BODDHI" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">BODDHI</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> is BACK from his retreat after </span><a href="http://lichiban.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-work-catship-has-arrived-boddhi-cat.html" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">his arrival on Planet Earth</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> on March 14th, 2010.</span> He is going to host my next show<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">"GALAKTIKAT: THE RETURN OF THE FELINES</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">"</span></b> coming up on AUGUST 21st at the <a href="http://spaceageherbalist.org/">LOTUS Temple of Visions Gallery</a>, which will feature collaborations with Livingroom Johnston, Ibrahim Yaqut, Kesed, Quan Luv, Mega, Texas Malika Toussaint-Baptist, WEZN, Tajeme 'King Gnep', Divine Elohim, Nacinimod of House of Nassat, G4 and Mari J Brooklyn, and a few surprises that i'll keep for later...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HVlSAhjB3pU&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HVlSAhjB3pU&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"></embed></object><br />The photos are the first of a series of a new project by <span style="font-weight: bold;">LUX27</span>, a creative collective involving WEZN & myself. More soon! This series is going to be one of the collabos featured in my exhibition this month.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">P.s: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/cats-on-earth/tracks">Cats on Earth</a> is a new discovery. I'm about to dig through <a href="http://gravityhalo.blogspot.com/">his music blog.</a></span><br /></div>

BODDHI is BACK!

"Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly." (Meditation in Action, Chogyam ...

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PRESS :: THE WHORINGTON (London) loves BODDHI

<div style="text-align: center;">One of my favorite peoples from London, <span style="font-weight: bold;">KEVIN LARNE</span> of Street Talk UK has been sending me steady love & support since the first time I met him and his awesome team, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Craig & Mike</span> when they interviewed me for <a href="http://streettalktv.wordpress.com/">STREET TALK UK</a> last summer. His newly-launched online magazine <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Whorington</span> is dedicated to nurture a benevolent cultivation of varied passions & obsessions, predominantly in the creative fields. Big shout out to the team, can't wait to kick it in Londontown! Here is the <a href="http://thewhorington.com/?p=963#more-963">link to the BODDHI post</a>.<br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/Lichiban-Whoringtonpress.jpg" width="600" /><br /></div>

PRESS :: THE WHORINGTON (London) loves BODDHI

One of my favorite peoples from London, KEVIN LARNE of Street Talk UK has been sending me steady love & support since the first time I ...

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ROBOTS & FELINES :: BODDHI IS LOVE

<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lichiban.blogspot.com/search/label/BODDHI"><span style="font-weight: bold;">BODDHI</span></a> has arrived to bring a timeless message for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">NU Metropolis. <a href="http://lichiban.blogspot.com/search/label/Aio">AIO</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">, the Heart Oracle </span></span>and her accomplice <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dr. Robolux</span>, Master of Electriklux, the brilliant genius of CITRAKA traveled to Earth to rewrite the old story of Babylon and to assist in resetting the future's karma. The story is unfolding...<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/MetropolisKatAnim.gif" /><br /><br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/O6d-Tv-lkcs&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/O6d-Tv-lkcs&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dr. Robolux</span>, Master of Electriklux</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/MrGalaktiKatElderAnimSnowleopard.gif" /><br />Come check out BODDHI & his BUDDYs this Friday, April 9, 6-9pm at Zakka, Brooklyn (155 Plymouth St bw Jay St and Pearl St). Details are <a href="http://lichiban.blogspot.com/search/label/BODDHI">here.</a><br />I am accepting pre-orders for custom BODDHIs. Please contact me via <a href="http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_contact.asp?from_url=true&job_seeker_id=177637&">email</a>.<br /></div>

ROBOTS & FELINES :: BODDHI IS LOVE

BODDHI has arrived to bring a timeless message for the NU Metropolis. AIO , the Heart Oracle and her accomplice Dr. Robolux , Master of Ele...

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UPCOMING SHOW ::: BODDHI, the cat in two cities CREWEST GALLERY 3/27 (LA) & ZAKKA 4/9 (BROOKLYN)

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">::: BODDHI is love :::</span></span><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/Lichiban-BODDHI1-2-600.jpg" /></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7H-m907cfq88FXa2LH-x2g6Bo-un3U6OlASADlGIibLd7BDF3-98tb2gUwpXGj3xEyqbHChPDbxHkZZ9C-Zxq6UDoWEgYP37GEJOM_WzgBnzvwK9aEc68j3ELqSOEvoI_JjotpYB9gtM/s1600/4461178061_3cdf26622e.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453778048906620738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7H-m907cfq88FXa2LH-x2g6Bo-un3U6OlASADlGIibLd7BDF3-98tb2gUwpXGj3xEyqbHChPDbxHkZZ9C-Zxq6UDoWEgYP37GEJOM_WzgBnzvwK9aEc68j3ELqSOEvoI_JjotpYB9gtM/s400/4461178061_3cdf26622e.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 312px;" /></a>My baby toy kitten is coming to Brooklyn this Friday! BODDHI is the cat oracle from PLANET CITRAKA, felinoid by birth, trickster by nature. Here is his magic <a href="http://lichiban.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-work-catship-has-arrived-boddhi-cat.html">profile.</a><br /><br />After a hugely successful opening night at Los Angeles' Crewest Gallery, curated by the homie, <a href="http://www.marka27.com/">MARKA 27</a> , the BUDDY Custom show is making it's way to Dumbo's Zakka Gallery in Brooklyn this Friday, April 9th, 2010. Details on the flyer below. Don't miss this, going to be fun!<br /><br />Here are some of my favorite custom BUDDYs from the show by artists Marka 27, Upendo, Jesse Hernandez, Kano, among others.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/BUDDYSHOW-FRONt.jpg" /><br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/crewest-bicbuddy2.jpg" /><br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/crewest-marks27-jessh.jpg" /><br />BIC+Plastics+-+Half+Dead+8+Inch+Buddy+by+Marka27<img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4018/4461159587_74a09ac79d.jpg" /><br />Check out the rest of the BUDDY's on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/crewestman/sets/72157623631033032/">CREWEST's Flickr stream</a><br /></div>

UPCOMING SHOW ::: BODDHI, the cat in two cities CREWEST GALLERY 3/27 (LA) & ZAKKA 4/9 (BROOKLYN)

::: BODDHI is love ::: My baby toy kitten is coming to Brooklyn this Friday! BODDHI is the cat oracle from PLANET CITRAKA, felinoid by birth...

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NEW WORK ::: The Catship Has Arrived :: BODDHI, the cat messenger [HIMALAYA SERIES 3#]

<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/Lichiban-BUDDHYcustomtoy15eyes-txt6.jpg" /><br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/Lichiban-BUDDHYcustomtoy2-600.jpg" /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">NAME : <span style="font-weight: bold;">BODDHI, the cat<br /></span>HOMELAND :<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Mt. Golden Blossom (Planet Citraka)<br /></span><span>CARRIER</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> : Catship Lotus 7<br /></span>ROLE ::<span style="font-weight: bold;"> ambassador / trickster / connector /<br /></span>MESSAGE ::</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"> love, liberation through light consciousness, eternal bliss through joy, nature & animal world harmony alert<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">MEANS OF INTERACTING WITH EARTHLINGS : <span style="font-weight: bold;">visualization & mental projections, parables, humor, telepathy, language of vibration control </span></span><br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/Lichiban-BUDDHYcustomtoy10crop600.jpg" /><br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/Lichiban-BUDDHYcustomDRAGON600F.jpg" /><br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/Lichiban-Dorje-TEACHEROFTHEMOUNT-3.jpg" /><br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/Lichiban-BUDDHYcustomtoy9-600.jpg" /><br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/Lichiban-BUDDHYcustomtoy-top600.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/Lichiban-MagicRoom11-600.jpg" /><br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/Lichiban-BUDDHYcustomtoy1-600.jpg" /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); white-space: pre;font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:10;" ><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/Lichiban-BUDDHYcustomtoy6game600.jpg" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:'Lucida Grande',fantasy;font-size:85%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;font-size:10;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/Lichiban-BUDDHYcustomtoy13600.jpg" /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">it was hard to let him go...NEXT APPEARANCE :: <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><a href="http://www.crewest.com/index.html">Crewest Gallery</a> Saturday, March 27 th, 6-9pm, LOS ANGELES<br />Zakka, April 9, 6-9PM BROOKLYN, NY<br /><br /></span></div>/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >This is #2 of the forthcoming series of work that will introduce the feline <a href="http://lichiban.blogspot.com/search/label/Himalayas">inhabitants of planet CITRAKA.</a> Limited edition prints are coming soon.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Two-city BIC BUDDY CUSTOM ART SHOW </span></span><br />Designed by my boy Marka27 (recently featured), CREWEST Gallery in Los Angeles have his newly launched toy platform the BIC BUDDY available, as well as 8" blanks, and the first big artist custom lineup of the year!<br /><br />The lineup includes Angry Woebots, Asylm, Auks, Dez Einswell, DrilOne, Enamel Kingdom, Erick Scarecrow, Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca, Jasper Santos, Jesse Hernandez, Jester, Jnub of “Leroy Jenkins”, kaNO, Keith Poon, Kenji Nakayama, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lichiban</span>, Lou Pimentel, MAD, Man One, Marka27, Munk One, NC Winters, Nemo, Pen ‘Tha/Black/Krayon”, Phu!, Pon, Problak, Reactor-88, Ritzy Periwinkle, Saner, Scribe, Sket-One, Southerndrawl, Spankystokes, Nakanari, Tristan Eaton, Vyal.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/BUDDYSHOW-FRONt.jpg" /><br /></span></div>

NEW WORK ::: The Catship Has Arrived :: BODDHI, the cat messenger [HIMALAYA SERIES 3#]

NAME : BODDHI, the cat HOMELAND : Mt. Golden Blossom (Planet Citraka) CARRIER : Catship Lotus 7 ROLE :: ambassador / trickster / connect...

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