Heard a great story about how heaven and hell expressed though Buddhism is very different to how religions preach heaven and hell. The story is of a Samurai who was sick of hearing mythical descriptions of heaven and hell and wanted to understand what Buddhist monks believed…The young Samurai warrior came across a monk sitting down and asked him:
“Monk. Is there a heaven and a hell? If you know the answer, tell me. If you don’t, don’t waste my time!”.
The monk looked up at him and said “you’re too stupid to understand!”.
The samurai said “Stupid? I’m a samurai warrior!”. The monk replied “You. A samurai? don’t be silly, you’re just a country bumpkin!”.
“That’s twice you’ve insulted me monk!” he rests his hand on his katana handle and sates “one more insult and I will cut you’re head off with this sword in half a second!”.
“With that, stupid rusty blade, you couldn’t cut a slice of bread with that!”. The samurai draws his sword, incensed by the insult of his imaculate sword, squinting his eyes with rage he prepared to swipe with his blade, the monk made eye contact and said:
“Samurai! That’s hell!”.
The samuai then understood at that moment that the anger he felt was what hell was like. He was so moved that he dropped his sword and his eyes welled up and bowed to the monk saying “thank you monk.”. Then the monk said “and that is heaven.” and the samurai understood that the repect, understanding, and compassion he flet was what heaven was like…
// great thing about the story is how the monk literally risked his neck to give the smaurai a lesson on heaven and hell!! (true story, heard story from Ajahn Brahm search on itunes podcasts - great knowledge!).

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Just finished a new large biro drawing featuring Kate Moss (process/detail of eye LEFT, finished work BELOW).
I have done two others before of her (here and here) which have received a lot of attention (blogs and email groups such as Daily Candy). The previous two were in fact commissions, this one I decided to do in respect to my own intentions.
I plan to do a limited run of 7 Giclee prints.
Click the image below, then in Flickr, click the All Sizes button above the image to view at large size for detail. Also see below images for You tube video of the making of the drawing.

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Below is a photo of the largest biro drawing I’ve ever done (almost 2m wide, 2007, sold). Put your mouse over the image and click twice on the plus button to zoom in, then click and drag the image to explore it.

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