True Golden Sand

True Golden Sand is a collection of collages by Rashani Réa, which she began in 1988, shortly after meeting Thich Nhat Hanh. It also includes dharma songs and a beautiful introduction by Rashani, as well as exquisite forewords by Nel Houtman and Dorothy Hunt and a preface by Joel and Michelle Levy. This crystalline collection of evocative images and luminous words will give wings to your spirit, and fill your whole being with gladness. —Edie Hartshorne, Musician, Author, Light in Blue Shadows To honor the creations of Rashani Reá, I enter the silence between the Master's words. For it is not just Thay's words, but the fertile muddy emptiness between them that her art marvelously embodies, formlessness in formed. Her collages give life to the ancient Tibetan saying, 'Void engenders compassion.' Her richness reminds us that the void is not nothing. It is the embrace that catches us as we fall through the window of her collage. It is the womb, the loam from which the lotus springs, the cipher of infinity, the hollow of a lung engorged with a breath of gratitude, the grief of the heart-wounded soldier, the open mouth of the homeless mother whose child has been taken away. O do not mistake this silence for merely not crying out! The spaciousness of Rashani's collage is the source of creation. Thank you, Thay, for gifting us with a daughter of the Buddha. —Alfred K. LaMotte, Interfaith Chaplain, author of Wounded Bud: Poems for Meditation