It's been a long long time since 1971 when I first heard Bob Dylan sing "Watching the River Flow." It's one of my favorites among his lesser known songs. Now, 50 years later, I am curious but not willing to pay the $25 dollars to watch him sing as I sit at my laptop. ¿What's the matter with me? (-:
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Coincidentally, this morning I finished watching two excellent films by Martin Scorsese that moved me deeply:
In the darkness of my night, in the brightness of my day.
(Bob Dylan)
She knows too much to argue or to judge.
(Bob Dylan)
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
(Dalai Lama)
I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.
(Dalai Lama)
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"... I'm just average, common too
I'm just like him, the same as you
I'm everybody's brother and son
I ain't different from anyone
It ain't no use a-talking to me
It's just the same as talking to you
I was shadow-boxing earlier in the day ...
(Bob Dylan)
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The New York Times, November 12, 2005, Washington
SCIENCE has always fascinated me. As a child in Tibet, I was keenly curious about how things worked. When I got a toy I would play with it a bit, then take it apart to see how it was put together. As I became older, I applied the same scrutiny to a movie projector and an antique automobile.
At one point I became particularly intrigued by an old telescope, with which I would study the heavens. One night while looking at the moon I realized that there were shadows on its surface. I corralled my two main tutors to show them, because this was contrary to the ancient version of cosmology I had been taught, which held that the moon was a heavenly body that emitted its own light.
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