The Forest Sculptures of Victoria’s Way

 

7 sculptures define Victoria’s Way (Sanskrit: Jina marga). Each one symbolizes a stage, indeed a crossroad on the pilgrimage to the full realization of one’s true self. The individual who responds naturally and spontaneously to the world completes the pilgrimage easily and finds fulfilment and joy. However, the ‘cultured’ and self- (and other-) regulated individual, the one who has lost the capacity to act spontaneously, encounters many obstacles and much distress along the way.

 

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Awakening Birth of Consciousness The Beginner's Mind        The Great Goddess, Durga Separating into 'self' and 'other' to prepare differencial contact, realness and consciousness        The Split Man The dysfunctional human who can't get it together, therefore make whole contact The unspiritual being        The Saklyamuni suppressing the desire for life The ematiated bodhisattva Gautama

    Awakening                        Separation                     Indecision                      Ascesis

        Bodhi                                           Durga                                     Adharma                                  Muni

 

Desire (indeed heat) extinguisehed Mr Cool, the Nirvana Man         Create or die, the Divine order Differential touch gives life (animates), hence is spiritual       Death of the Ferryman Decay, disconnection Loss of spiritual ability because of loss of the 'touch' that animates

   Released           Create or die                   Decay

     Nirvana                          Linga                                   Bodhisattva