Lotus

being devoted primarily to prayer. In Buddhist meditation, such experiences can have a transformative effect and can lead to a new understanding of life. Meditation can be practiced in many different positions, the most common being the half lotus or full lotus position. This…

Formal and Iconographic Analysis of Table Screen Depicting the Daoist Deity Doumu and Her Entourage The gilded bronze sculpture Table Screen Depicting the Daoist Deity Doumu and Her Entourage (Asian Art Museum, San Francisco) was made in approximately 1500-1700 during the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. As the Mother of the Dipper, Doumu represents the Big Dipper, and her nine sons are the stars of the Big Dipper, two invisible. The iconography of Doumu was originated from Marici, an Indian…

Rinzai focuses on the use of the Koan. A Koan is paradoxical statement or question used as a meditative tool. Rinzai disciples concentrate on a koan to discover their own nature and become Buddhas. Practitioners must realize himself as the answer to the koan; a koan cannot be answered by knowledge or thinking. If the practitioner focuses solely on the koan, he will forget both the passing of time and the outside world. This will allow the practitioner to unexpectedly “wake up” form their former…

Leadership possesses and indistinct definition, however it is common knowledge that a leader has an immense impact upon the individuals they guide. This impact can be exhibited through their integrity, confidence, or most crucial, their determination. The quality, determination, authorizes a leader as successful, considering it is the factor which stimulates an individual to achieve their ambitions. In The Odyssey, the leader of the expedition, Odysseus, obtains determination for him and his…

I have just left Calypso island and as slowly as the time passes by, the more I get homesick and long to see your beautiful face again. When I arrived at Calypso, I found a nymph that was named Calypso and lived on that island for seven years. Calypso gradually fell in love with me. She promised me immortality in exchange for my love, but I couldn't because I thought of you, my dear. No matter how beautiful she was, I still felt unaccomplished because deep in my heart, I still had that longing…

Homer, Odysseus showed he was a good leader by saving his men countless times from horrible and dangerous situations. One being when he rescued three of his men from the Lotus-Eaters. “I drove them, all three wailing, to the ships, tied down under their rowing benches, and called the rest” (Homer 955). Homer’s men were stuck in the Lotus-Eater’s trance and Odysseus was the only one to realize it. He could have just left his three men there and continued on without them, but instead he risked his…

When I went to the Denver Art museum, I wittiness many wonderful and fascinating art pieces, but the two that really took my eye was the Lotus crate by Zhang Daqian in 1963 and the Dutch created by Maria van Oosterwijck in 1670s. But what’s more fascinating is there life stories. Maria van Oosterwijck was born in South Holland, Netherlands August 20, 1630 and died November 12, 1693. She was the daughter of mother and father, Jacobus van Oosterwijck and Adriana van Linschoten. Her father was a…

The Odyssey Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” Every story holds truth to it, no matter what year it was published. In the The Odyssey by Homer, there are many themes that help readers in our world today, even though the epic poem was written hundreds of years ago. The first theme from The Odyssey that applies to our world today is considering advice from others often leads to success. In the story, Lady Circe warns Odysseus that when he sails past…

sparing only a priest of Apollo, who rewarded him with a skin of potent wine. The Cicones that neighbored the city then attacked, killing many of Odysseus men and driving the rest back to their ships. Storms blew the ships to Libya and the land of the Lotus-eaters, where an exploring…

Odysseus and his men were sailing home from one of their adventures and the current in the ocean swept them away towards the island of the Lotus eaters. From the island of the Lotus eaters Odysseus and his men sailed to an island across from the island of the Cyclops. Odysseus and his men rested from the journey and then sailed to the island to explore. When they were on the island they found a cave and went inside it, once inside they discovered that a Cyclops was living inside but not inside…