sand_and_gypsum mahayana mystery-- a mystery as luminous and yet as impenetrable as its own mirage-- seemed always hanging over the low lying waste 020419 ... Mahayana gypsum var sand rose if lamellar, (flattened) plates of Gypsum, become impregnated with sand during their crystallization, in this condition, they are arranged around a common center to form a rosette. all reflecting views of a soul [like a sand rose... remarkably flowerlike, except the texture of the 'petals' is rough and grainy instead of smooth] 041222 ... ever dumbening playa_dust 041222 what's it to you? who go blather from