Re: "issa" quoted in zen 365 page a day calendar

Jesus is a common and acceptable name given to boys in some countries.  I 
don't believe it's of  any concern;  I think she is just doing her thing. 
She is no doubt by conventional standards different/bizarre and that she 
always  has an original take on things, is true to herself and a trail 
blazer is why I adore her.

Many years ago I  attended a workshop weekend she did and we did a group 
study/ponder on how the shapes and directions of letters in a word formed an 
energy map of sort. I'm curious as to her thinking behind the word Issa in 
that regard. The S's certainly shape an interesting energy direction with 
the roundness and the forward/backward shape and with two S's, it seemingly 
intensifies that.


From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: "issa" quoted in zen 365 page a day calendar


>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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