Meditation Vision

Post by **Artguy** » July 10th, 2005, 12:04 pm

Early morning meditation

Post by **mtmynd** » July 10th, 2005, 3:04 pm

beautiful serenity, artguy. your place?

Post by **Sober Duck** » July 10th, 2005, 3:11 pm

Yes, a wonderful elaberate pond. Something to be proud of. Definately a work of art. Is it your creation?

Post by **Artguy** » July 10th, 2005, 3:12 pm

I built this in my back yard about 6 years ago, it just keeps on morphing.............

Post by **Sober Duck** » July 10th, 2005, 3:16 pm

Morph on. Morph on.

Post by **Dave The Dov** » July 10th, 2005, 4:24 pm

Has anyone who has seen your garden in person ask about the Buddha statue with the swasitka on it????
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Post by **Doreen Peri** » July 10th, 2005, 4:41 pm

Buddha with a swastika? hmmm ... lol... I don't think that's a swastika, is it? some other symbol? Looks similar, though.

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Post by **abstroint** » July 10th, 2005, 6:28 pm

beautiful pond, thanks for sharing the photos

I think the symbol of the swastika origanally had something to do with good luck?

Post by **Artguy** » July 10th, 2005, 9:31 pm

The swastika has taken on a meaning that is indellibly printed on our conscious mind that it's original meaning has beem lost. As to what that meaning is I will have to google....I do know that it is ancient and cross cultured...

Go for it Doreen...

Post by **Artguy** » July 10th, 2005, 9:35 pm

Originally a sanskrit word and symbol dating to 3,000 years B.C. meaning to do good....

Post by **Arcadia** » July 11th, 2005, 10:50 am

beautiful photos! I almost hear the water running! Am I seeing camalotes in the pond?

Post by **Dave The Dov** » July 11th, 2005, 11:00 am

When the Nazis got a hold of the swasitka. They twisted into a symbol of hatred. Now it's slowly coming back into a symbol of goodness once again.
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Post by **Sober Duck** » July 11th, 2005, 11:47 am

I heard the same thing Dave. The swasitka was even used by the NAACP in the late 1800's to the 1900's something I learned from Phillip Merrill of the Antiques Road Show. It wasn't a bad symbol until the Nazis had their way with it.

Post by **stilltrucking** » July 17th, 2005, 7:24 am

"Visitors to New Mexico in the late 19th century would have been pleased to purchase a souvenir rug, pot or piece of silver jewelry decorated with a swastika."

"Scholars generally agree it originated in India. With the emergence of the Sanskrit language came the term "swastika", a combination of "su", or good, and "asti", to be; in other words, well-being."

The way I understood it the swastika was supposed to represent a “twisted cross” One reason Hitler hated the Jews was for imposing their slave morality on the superman, christianity was a Jewish plot. I wouldn’t know. But I don’t understand why Germany banned the symbol. Like giving the Nazis ownership of it.
It is hard to use the word "reason" in the same sentence as Hitler. Life would have been so much better if they had admitted him into that art school in Vienna. Have you seen his water colors, I thought they were pretty good. Did you know that everytime someone buys a copy of Mein Kamf the royalties go to the US Treasury which owns the copyright. We will be paying off the national debt pretty soon.
I always liked the sceene in the remake of, A Star Is Born when Striesand comes back from a shopping trip and shows Kristofferson the Navajo blanket decorated with swastikas. I think it was when I started to desensitize myself to that nightmare symbol of my earliest childhood mermories of WW2

I think the Nazi symbol was tilted up on one leg of the cross where the Sanskrit and Navajo swastika are sit square or flat on the bottom leg of the cross

Beautiful meditation spot you have, thanks for the pics

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