[AJames]

The Beautiful Art of the Buddhist is also relevant to astronomy, and during these seemly bleak weather periods over the last few weeks, perhaps we should adhere to a different view. In my mind,

As Clerk Thomas says; ( http://astronomy-links.net/zenastronomy.htm )

Q: With the availability of so many beautiful Hubble images of nebulae, why do we amateur astronomers tote out our relatively puny instruments to view smudges in gray? Why do we do this repeatedly for the same smudgy objects, even when we are not showing newbies these objects for their first time?
A: The answer is simple: Each time is our first time.

Q: Why does it rain?
A. To wash to sky clean for us to observe the sky!

Transcendental, man!

Andrew