Layton was preceded in death by her son, Wayne Layton. Lorraine was a dear friend to all, and a wonderful loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother to many. In addition to her parents, Ms.
Layton was spending time with those she loved most. When she wasn't busy working and crafting, Ms. She was generous and kind and loved to make Christmas ornaments, wooden toys and decorations, and other intricate handmade crafts for friends and family.
Lorraine had a lifetime passion for crafts, art, drawing, and woodworking. Later in life she enjoyed working with extended family at Millmans Hardware, and there she was able to showcase one of her many talents - wood crafts. Layton enjoyed being a homemaker and embarked on a career in floral design working for McNichol Place, and then spent many years at Windsors Florist. High School and after getting married, moved to Lewes. This entry was posted in Liturgy & Study on Februby Andy Tanzan Scott.Local Flower Shop News Lorraine Lucille Layton, florist, craftsperson - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 So, to my final questions: do you have an altar at home? What’s on it and what do these things signify for you? How does your altar nourish you and what does it feel like if you sit without one? Anything missing, and if so what? The Faithless singer, Maxi Jazz, has a lyric in Liontamer: “If you place a thing in the centre of your life that lacks the power to nourish it will eventually poison everything that you are and destroy you, even as simple a thing as an idea…” So clearly it seems that we need a focus, a central point for our meditation. My last question was do we need an altar to do zazen? Has anyone sat without an altar and what does this feel like? Iris suggested that you don’t need an altar when sitting zazen outside but there was wide agreement by the group that it simply doesn’t feel right indoors – there’s something missing. Libby suggested that the items on the altar link to the ancient idea of the four elements: incense (air), candles (fire), water bowl (water), and plants (earth). But I am still a little unclear about the significance of water on a Zen altar and would welcome ideas about this. Tibetan altars have two bowls of water, one for washing the face and mouth, another for the feet. The significance of water and its life giving properties seems clear. Boddidharma apparently wrote, “Incense is not worldly physical incense rather it is the transcendent Incense of the True Teaching which perfumes one’s foul-smelling evil deeds, thoroughly fumigating them until they vanish.” Another author has suggested that the morally upright person is ‘perfumed’ with virtue.
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(To mask the smell of a room full of people on sesshin perhaps?) It also represents, according to Tibetan and Zen practitioners, moral discipline. Jenny offered the simple idea of smell, a pleasant fragrance. What about candles? Suzie replied, “Light dispelling the darkness of ignorance,” and this, too, is widely described – candles represent illumination and wisdom. This is mentioned by several authors, as is the idea that flowers represent generosity.Ĭhris felt that the statue of Buddha or Kanzeon represented something more permanent and remind us of our true enduring nature. What do the common elements flowers candlelight and incense signify for you I asked? Jim pointed out that flowers represent impermanence – they bloom then fade. For some the items could not easily be explained (“It’s a soul connection”), but in other cases the choices – a link with parents or ancestors – echo the description of a Soto Zen temple altar with its ancestor memorial tablets. More personal items were an elephant, an attractive stone, a picture of someone special, a dead mother’s rings, and coins from a dead father’s suit pockets. Common items were plants, a Buddha, candle, incense and water. I began by asking the group, “Who has an altar at home?” (it was most of us) and then, “What’s on your home altar and why?” The replies were interesting and varied.
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