Words Well Spoken: Maxims Of Earth And Stone

On a winter evening in 2005 while sipping hot coffee all alone at my favourite haunting place India International Centre in Delhi without any specific reason I suddenly recalled some stanzas of Water and Wood composed by Je Gungthangpa which I had read many years ago. It caused me to think of whether I could try to write something in imitation of it. So I wrote few stanzas Of Stone as my first name Doboom means 'stone vase'. The stanzas seemed to form smoothly. Feeling a sense of receiving some inspiration every evening during a month I wrote a couple of stanzas before going to bed and completed the stone part. Meanwhile I had requested his Holiness the Dalai Lama for a teaching on The Path to Enlightenment and got the opportunity of receiving it in Dharamsala. So based on some comprehension of the teachings I started writing stanzas Of Earth and completed it at the end of the teachings which lasted several days.