From Mr. Damon's Institute for Internetworked Studies: The case of the billow-cloud dream flag

"In San Francisco, photographer Mila Zinkova was admiring a Pacific sunset: 'There were huge waves on the ocean,' says Zinkova. 'Suddenly I saw a different wave at the sky. I've never seen such clouds before and they were just amazing.'


"These clouds, sometimes called 'billow clouds,' are produced by the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability when horizontal layers of air brush by one another at different velocities."



Namkhyen Gyaldar: The Dream Flag of His Holiness the 16th Karmapa. Translated, it means "victorious flag of the Buddha's wisdom."

"At the level of relative truth, the blue is the sky (heaven), symbolizing spiritual insight and vision, and the yellow is the earth, the actual world of our everyday experience. The symmetry of the wave pattern shows how we come to understand their interdependence when we practice the dharma." Also:

"The sky-blue colour represents the complete and profound wisdom of the inner realisation of the Buddha. The yellow colour on the flag represents the complete wisdom of limitless compassion, which bestows benefits on all sentient beings and phenomena. The wavy line and the joining of the yellow and blue colours signify the inseperability of these two wisdoms."