“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Thursday, March 3, 2011

I Am a Little World Made Cunningly


Come to think of it Zurkow's decanters resemble Buddhas on lotuses. (Scroll down.) Transparent, yet enclosed (the common prejudice is that Buddhas are self-absorbed). Crystalline, accurate. Full of liquid energy, flowing movement. Vulnerable yet powerfully compelling.

To show her accomplishment Yeshe Tsogyal opened her belly to show a sky full of stars.

A common Buddhist image for samsara is a giant ocean.

And most of all, Buddhas as decanters are OBJECTS in all their ambiguous intensity. See my many posts on Buddhas, statues and Buddha nature as an OOO object.

An ocean wrapped in a decanter wrapped in an ocean.

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