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building rock piles
Post#1 @
07-28-10
, 09:22 AM
Throughout the United States and Canada, many wooded trails have rock stacks that are not just trail markers. Many of these rock piles are a similar purpose as those in Tibet, associated with patience, balance, and meditation involved in creating a good one. I was told that in Hawaii, people build these rock stacks as a memorial to deceased loved ones. Building them is a kind of prayer or meditation. It's hard to think of other things when you're balancing rocks. It takes body, mind and soul. In Tibetan Buddhism they have a practice that used rock piles. These rock piles are most evident in Tibet and the Indian Himalayas. Some of the piles contain stones which are inscribed with a Buddhist mantra to pay homage to the spirits of the sky and mountains and to ensure a safe journey. Other customs associated with the rock piles include walking around the pile 3 times in a clockwise direction and offering alms such as honey, sweets or alcohol. Have you even seen a rock pile? Where and when? Or, have you ever made a rock pile? |
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Re: building rock piles
Post#2 @
08-21-10
, 01:07 PM
When I was in prison I saw many rockpiles. I was usually prevailed upon to swing my hammer and break them. |
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Re: building rock piles
Post#3 @
10-04-10
, 11:49 PM
while I was in Cambodia I saw quite a few at Ankor Wat. Inside most of the temples and all of the ruins there were hundreds and hundreds of small rock piles...very beautiful! |
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Post#4 @
10-05-10
, 12:48 AM
we are from Canada and my brother went to school way up north in Thunder Bay, he would see Rock pile sometimes up there. |
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Re: building rock piles
Post#5 @
10-14-10
, 04:37 AM
up in Thunder Bay and in the North there are also some Inuksuk. Very cool! |
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Re: building rock piles
With the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver using inuksuk as their visual icon I think they made it famous worldwide. I haven't seen one in person but I have built one with my kids. It's not as easy as it looks. The word inuksuk means "something which acts for or performs the function of a person." Inuit-preferred spelling is inuksuk as opposed to inukshuk. |
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