Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Early morning meditation

beautiful serenity, artguy. your place?

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

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

Morph on. Morph on.

Has anyone who has seen your garden in person ask about the Buddha statue with the swasitka on it????
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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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beautiful pond, thanks for sharing the photos

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

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...

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

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

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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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.

"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