issa/ jesus - that's all i have to say about that.

Mary,
 
thanks for the link to the issa press thing on the name choosing. i'll check
it out as time
allows. as far as the remote possibility of her modeling herself after
jesus.... well, i can't
think of a better person/idea/image/way of life to model after. hmmm.
interesting.


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--- On Thu, 1/15/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: "issa" quoted in zen 365 page a day calendar
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 9:57 AM

I don't begrudge Jane's desire to change her name to anything she wants
any
time, but if the idea for Issa as a name came from the Islamic name for Jesus
(Isa or Issa) or from the Issa/Jesus whose travels in India 19th century
journalist Nicolas Notovitch purported to have found described at length in a
document in an Indian lamasery, I would have considered that a bizarre choice,
especially given it accompanied the timing of her decision to abandon all
possessions.

The decision to get rid of possessions is something I think is highly
commendable and difficult to do. But if one were naming oneself Issa to
assume
the
identify of or to use as a stage name the name of the ancient prophet who told
people to abandon their possessions, that would probably not be my idea of
good

taste. (It is her life, not mine, however, so my reaction would be
irrelevant.)

Fortunately, Issa has provided on her website an article in which she
explained the name was chosen by her apparently as a feminine version of the
name
Isaiah, and she claimed she did not know of the connection to Jesus at the
time

she chose it:

http://www.issalight.com/press/press-1006-globemail.html

I did notice a week ago that the name was associated with Jesus because of a
program on a history channel entitled "Jesus in India". Some youtube
items are
up about Jesus in Kashmir and BBC snippets. Wikipedia, as mentioned by an
earlier person posting in this topic, lists Jesus in the top two entries for
the
several examples of Issa's to choose from to read about.

The Issa in the oriental calendar quote is likely the Japanese Haiku fellow
though.




In a message dated 1/14/09 2:22:20 PM, [email protected] writes:


> wow! how cool is that??? that is too cool!!!
> Tracy
>
> --- On Wed, 1/14/09, David Rieken <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: David Rieken <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: "issa" quoted in zen 365 page a day calendar
> To: "Jeff Johannes" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Gina Luzzi" <[email protected]>, "siblings"
<[email protected]>,
> [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 12:48 PM
>
>
>
> It could also be Jesus.
>
> http://reluctant-messenger.com/issa.htm
>
> David
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Jeff Johannes
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This must be the one:
>
> http://www.haikuguy.com/issa/
>




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