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Celebrating Christmas as a Buddhist
As anyone might guess from my effusive Christmas decorations, I've never seen a conflict with celebrating the season of Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Man. But for a helpful analysis, I came across a very nice blog this week on Christmas for Buddhists: Can Buddhists Celebrate Christmas?
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I'd like to invite you to join me next Thursday night, December 17, for the one sure-fire thing I know for getting in the Christmas spirit:
 A CHRISTMAS CAROL:
A Solo Performance
by Mark Cabus
Mark Cabus returns for the Second Annual Farewell Tour of his critically acclaimed one-man performance of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL. There are four performances, December 17-20 at Belmont's Black Box Theatre (1575 Compton Ave.).
Curtain time: 7:30 p.m., except Sunday, Dec. 20 (4 p.m.).
Purchase tickets at TicketsNashville.com:
$15 Adults at the Box Office (Cash or Check only); $12 in advance
$10 Actors Equity members
$5 Students and Seniors (with ID)
Bring a non-perishable and/or canned good for the Second Harvest food basket, and receive $3 off a full-price adult ticket at the box office.
Cabus' interpretation avoids sugary sentimentality as he portrays all 34 characters from Ebenezer Scrooge to Tiny Tim.
Former TENNESSEAN critic Kevin Nance was effusive in his praise of Cabus' work on this holiday classic: "Cabus delivers a tour de force, acting out all the parts in Charles Dickens' Holiday classic and making it seem as if that's the only way it should be done ... This CHRISTMAS CAROL is one of the smallest yet most sensational shows of the year. Don't miss it. "
This Performance is Appropriate for the Whole Family but suggested for Children 12 and over.
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Quote of the Week
Realizing the View subtly but completely transforms your vision of everything. More and more, I have come to realize how thoughts and concepts are all that block us from always being, quite simply, in the absolute. Now I see clearly why the masters so often say: "Try hard not to create too much hope and fear," for they only engender more mental gossip.
When the View is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. You see through everything directly, as if you had X-ray eyes. You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them; you welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.
The things you took so seriously before-ambitions, plans, expectations, doubts, and passions-no longer have any deep and anxious hold on you, for the View has helped you to see the futility and pointlessness of them all, and born in you a spirit of true renunciation.
- Sogyal Rinpoche
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