Indeed! About 16 years ago, my wife got a discreet tattoo on her
shoulder blade, with the simple word "anicca", for just that very same
reminder that what we might think is permanent is really not. As
permanent as a tattoo seems, the body itself with eventually decay and
rot away.
With metta,
John

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Scott" <sadelson_2000@...> wrote:
>
> hi nina, are you saying tatoos are *permanent*? : ) scott
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Nina van Gorkom <vangorko@> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Scott,
> >
> > Op 24-feb-2008, om 0:27 heeft Scott het volgende geschreven:
> >
> > > i've been planning to get a few tattoos of words in pali.
> > > was wondering if anyone can help me make absolutely sure i get the
> > > right calligraphy for the artist. any help would be appreciated!
> > ------
> > N: There are disadvantages to tattoos. You cannot remove them if you
> > are sorry later on.
> > Nina.
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>