The death of a beautiful man........Charles Gray

[serryjw]

A friend sent this to me...It will give you all the warm and fuzzies on a day we all need something.

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Most people spend their lives trying to gain wealth. Charles Gray spent his trying to get rid of it. He went from involuntarily poor to unwittingly wealthy to voluntarily, joyously, rebelliously poor. In his last decade he took up a simple middle class life, and on July 8 he died of bone cancer at his home in northwest Eugene at age 81.


Courtesy Sylvia Hart.
Gray was a peace and social justice activist, an accredited political sociologist and amateur statistician, a husband three times over and a great-grandfather. But he was most widely known for living 18 years on less than $100 per month — an amount he figured every human could consume to sustain an economically fair, environmentally sane planet.

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http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2006/07/13/coverstory.html

[Octafish]

1. Bodhissatva

The guy wanted to enlighten us all.

Peace to those who knew him.

May we all be so strong as Mr. Gray.

[serryjw]

2. Yes, my friend knew him well

he really walked the talk.My earthly compromises are so small in comparison.

The Bodhissattva Way

It is a matter of,
remain below, or follow the Light,
The way of the Boddhissatva,
Or remain in the night.
When we seek the Law the Buddha appears,
and teaches the Law,
destroys evil desires,
and evil fears.

Then the Treasure Tower appears,
And Taho Buddha verifies the truth.
We preach the Law to others,
Revealing ourselves as Boddhissattvas of the Earth,
and transform the world.


Christopher H. Holte