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Last weekend it was beyond fun and a pleasure to meet Sue and Mitsu who were so lovely and generous with me. One thing that happened was that we walked by a new park that had been built near Union Square, and there was this wonderful little play dome. It wasn't complicated... just this smooth dome, like a modern hill that even small kids could climb up and slide down.

This reminded me of a park where I myself played as a child and where I used to take the kids when they were smaller. In this wonderful park is a rather famous and sometimes controversial statue (no those aren't my children), which causes people to refer to the park as "Naked Lady Park."    

Snippet from the Song of Enlightenment:

When you truly awaken,
You have no formal merit.
In the multiplicity of the relative world,
You cannot find such freedom.
Self-centered merit brings the joy of heaven itself,
But it is like shooting an arrow at the sky;
When the force is exhausted, it falls to the earth,
And then everything goes wrong.

Why should this be better
Than the true way of the absolute,
Directly penetrating the ground of Tathagata?
Just take hold of the source
And never mind the branches.
It is like a treasure-moon
Enclosed in a beautiful emerald.
Now I understand this Mani-jewel
And my gain is the gain of everyone endlessly

http://members.optushome.com.au/davidquinn000/Buddhist%20Writings/Song.htm